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What you can do that will save some processor time is turn off 
compression (put CompressionLevel 0, I believe, in you client's ssh 
config).

Mike


Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> 
>> Access to my corporate network is via VPN, that I can easily get to 
>> work with Windows (since that's they way IT supports).  I've setup an 
>> old laptop to run Windows at home, and I have it run (cygwin) ssh port 
>> forwarding so that I can access my office system(s) from the rest of 
>> my home LAN (which is substantially Linux, of course).  Now that I've 
>> finally made some progress in replacing my office desktop with Linux, 
>> I'm sshing to a my local windows system to execute apps on the office 
>> system.
>>
>> What this means, I think, is that my poor little "VPN relay" is having 
>> to burn a lot of CPU encrypting and un-encrypting stuff without 
>> cause.  One cycle of that is for a local LAN connection where I have 
>> complete physical security (my home), and the other is encrypting the 
>> port forwarding that's going over a VPN and thus already encrypted once.
>>
>> So, is there a way to invoke SSH that will NOT do encryption of the 
>> basic data stream?
> 
> 
> Hmmm, I don't know, but you could use the blowfish cypher, it's a bit 
> faster.  Not as secure, but generally considered secure enough.
> 


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