Have you tried running the client with -v to see what it is doing
Or with sshd, run truss (or trace) to see if it's hanging on something
networky.
A while back our boxes were hanging for a similar period and truss showed it
was timing out on a netstat command due to reverse name resolution not being
set
> This question is probably more about inet than ssh, but does anyone know how
> to get a connection faster. Sometime the system takes over 60s to connect
> even though it is not particularly busy.
>
> Stephen
Rgds
Paul Matthews