From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Thu May 31 22:30:31 2001 Received: from smtp1.clinet.fi (smtp1.clinet.fi [194.100.2.57]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20539 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:30:31 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from mail.clinet.fi (mail.clinet.fi [194.100.0.7]) by smtp1.clinet.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDA22176B; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:30:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA22330 for ssh-outgoing; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:09:01 +0300 Received: from imadev.eeg.ccf.org (imadev.eeg.ccf.org [139.137.100.50]) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA22325 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:09:00 +0300 Received: (qmail 22290 invoked by uid 563); 31 May 2001 19:08:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:08:56 -0400 From: Greg Wooledge To: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Cc: ssh@clinet.fi Subject: Re: ssh connection slow establishing Message-ID: <20010531150856.T14412@eeg.ccf.org> References: <20010531182058.YRMV8055.mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010531182058.YRMV8055.mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>; from owner-ssh@clinet.fi on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:20:58PM +0000 Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:20:58PM +0000, owner-ssh@clinet.fi wrote: > I am using the > default built in random feature since Solaris does not > have /dev/random out of the box. Why does it take 4-5 > mins to establish a connection to a remote machine You should consider installing the EGD (entropy gathering daemon), or something equivalent to it. EGD is written in perl, so you'll need that as well. A link to EGD is in the README file in the openssh source tree. For the benefit of the extremely lazy reader ;-), it's at http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/