[ale] SSH slow to connect?

[Raylynn Knight]

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 23:16, Mike Panetta wrote:
> 
> I have just (re)installed linux on my MVME177 based VME system and I am
> (still) having a strange problem.  When I try to ssh to the machine it
> takes a LONG time to connect, on the order of 2 minutes or so.  At first
> I thought it was because it was trying to reverse map the IP I was
> trying to connect from, so I ran iptraf to see if it was contacting a
> DNS server at about the time I tried to connect to the machine via SSH. 
> It did, so I added the host to /etc/hosts and tried again, this time it
> did not connect to a DNS server, but the connect still took about 2
> minutes to happen.  Now I suspect the slow connect is related to CPU
> speed.  Is this a realistic suspision?  The MVME177 has a 50MHz 68060
> CPU in it so its not the fastest thing in the world but at ~100 bogomips
> its not that bad.  What else could it be?  Does anyone here run Linux on
> an equivalent machine (perhaps a Mac of some sort) that could confirm my
> suspisions?  BTW I did not reinstall to try and fix this problem, I
> reinstalled because my HDD crashed :(.  In general the machine is not
> too slow.  It does not compile the kernel as fast as my Dual 1GHz P-III
> does but thats ok ;)
> 
> TIA,
> Mike
> 

This is definitely not due to the speed of the CPU.  I can ssh to my
Apple Macintosh Q950 a 33 Mhz 68040 and connection takes all of 11
seconds.  Try invoking ssh with the -v option which will give verbose
output of what is happening when the connection is being negotiated. 

Ray Knight



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