slow to login with ssh - is this to be expected

From: Mark Bergman (mark.bergman@thales-is.com)
Date: 11/21/02 

From: mark.bergman@thales-is.com (Mark Bergman)
Date: 21 Nov 2002 02:12:20 -0800

Logging in to a remote machine using ssh typically takes 5-6 seconds
for me, compared to less than 1 second for rsh.
Is this to be expected?

I am using ssh-2, with rsa key copied to client machine.
I have tried adjusting the order of preferences of authentication
methods (by setting PreferredAuthentications in ssh_config to put
public_key first) with no success.
Machines are on a busy-ish LAN

Mark Bergman
Manchester UK
mark . bergman @ thales-is.com

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