JC,
If you don't get a reasonable answer here. Maybe trying the OpenSSH list might help. Might be a good place to ask there too. From what I see from posts there they answer fairly quickly like debian-user does.
Later,
Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Matthews [mailto:jaycee@jaycee.uklinux.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:36 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: SSH 2 slower than 1?
>
>
> Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from
> stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before?
>
> A "ssh -v kanyon exit" reveals that the slow point is immediately
> after
>
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
>
> .. but I'm not sure why the reply it's waiting for is taking so long.
> It's not the generating of the session key, is it? Not even sure if
> that a relevant question.
>
> Anyway, after waiting a good 15 seconds, I get:
>
> debug1: Host 'kanyon' is known and matches the RSA host key.
> debug1: Found key in /home/jaycee/.ssh/known_hosts:7
> debug1: bits set: 1618/3191
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: kex_derive_keys
> .
> .
> .
>
> and some more. I can post the lot if it'd help.
> Is it just that protocol 2 takes that much more horsepower to start a
> session that my 486 just isn't up to it? I do hope not ...
>
> cheers,
> jc
>
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