Long delay during login

[Gary]

Matt Johnston <matt <at> ucc.asn.au> writes:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:21:53AM +0100, Simon Rowe wrote:
> We're seeing a long delay when logging in using dropbear on to our embedded 
> system (60MHz PowerPC). Looking at the debug from the client end it appears 
> that the issue is the Diffie-Hellman key negotiation within dropbear
> 
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY
> 
> [delay of about 8 seconds]
> 
> Is there anything we can change to reduce this delay?


Same problem here.  My bet is that it's blocking on the random 
device.  For me ssh'ng to a busy machine is fast, ssh'ng to an
idle machine almost always has a BIG delay.