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4 tricks to speed up ssh connections

Aug 172013

I use ssh connections to manage remote servers it’s one of the main task in my work, so over time I’ve learnt some tricks to speed up the connection phase of the ssh protocol, so in this article I’ll show you how to:

Configure ssh to use ipv4 only
Configure ssh to use a particular authentication method
Reuse SSH Connection
Disable the Dns lookup on server side

Also if you are interested in ssh you can take a look at my previous articles about How to keep ssh connections alive on Linux and how to keep a Permanent SSH Tunnels with autossh.
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sslh – a ssl/ssh multiplexer for Linux

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Jul 222012

Sometimes you have some firewall that don’t allows you to accept connection other than some specific ports let’s say that you can connect on your VPS or remote server only on the ports 80 (http) and 443 (https), but you need a port also for ssh to manage your vps/server but the port 443 is used by your Web server with its https protocol, so what can you do ?

This is where sslh comes in. It’s a really simple tool that wraps incoming connections to a port and then depending on protocol redirects it onto sshd back on port 22, or to your web server on localhost:443.
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