Re: ssh .vs. rsh

From: Atro Tossavainen (atossava_at_cc.helsinki.fi)
Date: 01/22/04

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:49:24 +0200 (EET)

    Asif,

    > We have users remotely accessing applications that has GUI in Solaris env.
    > It responds real fast if you use rsh,

    (in which case the X11 traffic is not tunneled at all)

    > but its pretty slow for openssh of any flavor. Is there way we can
    > speed it up ? may be by using -c blowfish ?

    Using one of the alternative ciphers, such as blowfish, will definitely
    speed things up somewhat if your default cipher is 3DES like ISTR it
    usually is.

    Using compression may help if the network links are slow. 

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