[Simh] VMS multinet DHCLIENT/SSH2 configuration problem

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi TIm,

>...
>Also I am figuring out how to set SSH2 terminal server. I successfully
>generated SSH2 keys on emulated SIMH VAX system.
>...
>I installed SIMH and OpenVMS 7.3 on my new Tinker SoC (Pi clone) with
>Armbian OS for 7/24 operation.

Once you get SSH working you may find it's unusable.  On my RPi 3 it
takes the VMS MultiNet SSH server several *minutes* to negotiate the
SSL handshake.  I suspect (without having attempted any diagnosis!)
that this is due to SIMH having to emulate a huge number of VAX floating
point instructions.

(Even on my real VAXstation 4000/96 the MultiNet SSH server took up to a
minute to negotiate the SSL handshake, and of course the system would
"pause" every now and again while the session keys were renogotiated.
I had hoped that in moving from a 100MHz VAX to a 1.2GHz SIMH VAX things
might improve, but they went dramatically backwards.)

Regards

        Jeremy Begg

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