[SunRescue] Finally got DSL

[John F. Davis]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:08:33PM +0000, David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <20010102232507.A1806 at pigsty.barnyard.co.uk>
> by David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk>:
> 
> > In the case of the SS2 it's excusable - it really is a crappy old
> > machine, and the comparable x86 and 68k boxes I have suffer the same
> > way.  I haven't bothered with any serious testing (cos it's not a
> > serious problem for me) but my guess would be that the delay is
> > whilst the SSL lib crunches numbers to create the session keys.
> 
> SPARC isn't great at SSL - one of the reasons Sun sell a crypto
> accelerator card.

Hmm.  I don't know if this is germaine or not, but I use ssh exclusively
between my computers.  I run a sparc10, sparc 5, and a ultra5.  I don't see
any problems with speed. scp on the other hand is a little slow.

John
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