Andrew Eberbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am I missing something obvious? Why is it that ssh2 on my openbsd 3.1
> sparc machine is so incredibly slow? I've tried using both RSA and
> DSA. When i say slow I mean it's slow to get a prompt to enter my
> username and password, but after I connect it's fine. Someone
> suggested that it's because these sparcs don't have hardware divide...
> is this the case?
>
> uname says:
> OpenBSD moron 3.1 GENERIC#27 sparc
>
> ssh -V says:
> OpenSSH_3.2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
>

Recompile for your specific machine. It will speed up with approx. a
factor of 4.

EJ
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