On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:49:44AM -0500, michaelb at real-time.com wrote: > SSH connections to the server that houses our CVS repository are painfully > slow. Once connected everything is fine. It's just the authentication part > that takes forever. I have no idea why this is so, but I have to live with it > day in and day out. Lately I've been wondering if there was something I could > do to avoid reconnecting every time I perform a CVS command. One thought that > came to mind is running a SSH proxy thingy on my local box that would remain > connected to the CVS server and forward commands. I would then set of CVSROOT > to point at localhost. When I executed CVS commands they would get executed on > the remote CVS server. Another way to think of this is as a sshd daemon that > runs on one machine but forwards everything to a different machine. Note that > the -L forwarding option of ssh does not fulfill my needs because it forces me > to reconnect/reauthenticate. Does anyone know of a such a SSH proxy thingy or > a different solution to my problem? > How painfully slow? Have you tried connecting using the -v switch to ssh? It might help in showing you what point in the authentication process is slow. It could be as simple as providing the -4 switch to ssh on connect. That reduced connection time for me to our servers from 15 seconds to about two seconds. -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list