Re: pcAnywhere and isakmpd

["Beukers, W.J." <WBeukers@vanleeuwen.nl>]

All i can say that i used pc-anywhere over a openbsd 3.1 isakmpd firewall
(3des sha1) as well (that is, until recently) and it worked fine..i use vnc,
pcanywhere both and both speeds are fine to work with. I used pgpnet
however...

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Michael Erdely [mailto:mike@erdelynet.com]
Verzonden: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:10 PM
Aan: misc@openbsd.org
Onderwerp: pcAnywhere and isakmpd


Hello,

I have an OpenBSD 3.1 firewall that is also running isakmpd configured
to use 3des and sha1.  I'm using SSH Sentinel to connect to isakmpd to
gain access to my private network.

pcAnywhere connections through the VPN are terribly slow.  They're
almost unusable.

There are multiple pcAnywhere hosts on the private network (behind the
VPN/firewall) and all of them exhibit the same behavior.

I was almost at the end of my rope when I decided to try VNC.  VNC works
very well.  This is my first experience of having VNC out-perform
pcAnywhere.  While VNC is an OK solution for the short term, we want to
continue using pcAnywhere for it's user/password management.

Does anyone have any ideas on why pcAnywhere would behave so poorly when
other traffic (VNC, NetBIOS file transfers) behave normally?

Let me know if I should provide any additional information.

-ME