Re: ssh intermittently hanging after a few frames

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 09/07/04

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    In article <pan.2004.09.07.15.21.20.41144@osprey.astro.umass.edu>,
    Martin Weinberg <weinberg@osprey.astro.umass.edu> wrote:
    >I have a network routed via cable modem. I ssh to my workplace which is
    >behind a firewall. Roughly half of the time, ssh hangs shortly after
    >logging. This does not occur with other machines on the local network;
    >these other machines have the same distro (Debian/Sarge) installed.
    [....]

    Maybe one of the firewalls drops packets with the DF bit set? Try turning
    off Path MTU Discovery ("echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc"). 

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