[Gllug] 486sx 25 machine - thoughts and comments

Robert McKay robert at mckay.com
Thu Apr 18 14:20:54 UTC 2002


On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:51:18PM +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> > David Cantrell wrote:
> > > You could also put a multi-port serial card in there, bung ssh on, and you
> > > then have a nice ssh-able terminal server.  Terminal servers are good.
> > > ssh-capable terminal servers are even better.
> > Ssh does need a bit of CPU power though.
>
> The initial key exchange and session key negotiation will be slow, but I
> get acceptable performance out of my 486-33.  Mine only has 8Mb, so isn't
> suitable for running more than two or three ssh sessions at once, but
> with 32Mb it should be more than enough.

SSH works on my palm III.. slowly, I admit.

Robert.



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