Thanks John for change of cipher suggestion. My problem is though when I am far away from my office. Regards, Luis
the On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 03:53:36PM +0000, John Long wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > > Thanks everybody for their answers and suggestions. I have tried X > > forwarding, but sometimes it is too slow (my network's fault, I > > believe), so I guess I'll just keep my separate configuration files in > > sync. > > Hi Luis, > > If you are working across the internet then many things can cause SSH to be > slow and it requires both ends to do encryption/decryption so running on > slow PCs can also affect it. If you are on your own network, one thing you > can do that can significantly speed up X forwarding is using the RC4 > (ARCFOUR) cipher instead of the default. It is not as secure as the other > ciphers, but it is much, much faster. It is worth trying if you need X > forwarding for some reason. > > On my local network I use several servers and use X forwarding heavily. The > performance is as good as direct connection, but in reality only a few > meters of cables are separating me from the servers so I would expect > nothing less. > > -- > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong > against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD > and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org > attachments Code Blue or Go Home! -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | moc...@fis.unam.mx /\_/\__/ O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
