thank you for your response. A: sol8 by default does not include an entropy device like /dev/random. so you have to install one. recommendation is to use this one found here: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ and we did, and it makes a huge difference. does anyone know how to add entropy sources with an example? thank you. original post: >recently the ssh/ssl/zlib sparc package on solaris8... >typing ssh $HOSTNAME takes a lllooonnngggg time (10-25s). >telnet takes <1s. > >the keys took a long time too to scp. > >why? > >rf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/Received on Thu Jul 19 22:18:39 2001
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