On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jason Pyeron wrote: > I do not have any ideas on this. > > Where should I start. [... lots and lots of snippage ...] When sshd looks to be the culprit, my troubleshooting begins by launching it in foreground mode on a non-standard port on the server: sshd -ddd -p 2222 On the client, do ssh -p 2222 your.server If that doesn't provide good info, wrap sshd in strace: strace -o /tmp/sshd-trace.txt sshd -d -p 2222 The strace output will show where the delays are occuring. (You can modify timestamp info in the strace output. See the man page for details.) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/