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Re:If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is go... by JoshMcguigan on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:03PM (#34671340)
What part of SSH takes 6 minutes?
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Re:If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is go... by Topgamer7 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#34671387)
Maybe the encryption on older hardware?
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Re:If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is go... by johnklos on Sunday February 05, 2023 @08:18PM (#34671988)
Running sshd on a 33 MHz m68030 (OpenSSH_9.1), and connecting to it from a modern(ish) machine (OpenSSH_8.1p1) takes about six minutes to complete when the system is otherwise idle. Right now it's busy with lots of http requests due to putting the link here, so it's taking about 9 minutes or so ;)
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Re:If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is go... by snvzz on Monday February 06, 2023 @01:28AM (#34674057)
Is that Linux?

It takes too long, but much less than that, on Netbsd @ A1200 with 030, albeit 50MHz.

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Re:If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is go... by johnklos on Monday February 06, 2023 @01:55AM (#34674189)
NetBSD 10.0_BETA.

I'd expect a 50 MHz '030 to be faster than a 33 MHz one ;) But running newer ssh and sshd means more expensive default ciphers. I can speed it up a bit by being more deliberate about the choice of cipher, but I want to run things by default, generally speaking.

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