On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got ssh running on an old sparc classic here. > > The box is running debian (potato i think, the last stable sparc release) > > When i ssh into it, sometimes is will wait a couple of seconds then > disconnect, other times it connects fine. > > IS this just becasue the box is old and slow and ssh doesn't answer in > time ?
You are running it as a daemon and not under inetd aren't you? Although you can run ssh under inetd it's not recommended because of the startup time in which it generates a key, this could cause the timeouts you're seeing. Is the box busy with other stuff? running out of resources sockets/memory? There's several versions of ssh with different encryption options available, maybe try being specific with something at each end thus cutting down any negotiation timing (although if it's negotiating this implies some sort of connection in the first place). -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
