XTerm & OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

[war]

> Let me guess, you have firewalling/packet filter/NAT and the client and
> server are on different subnets?  It's most likely an MTU problem,  see
> [1].

Usually yes, but this also occurs on a 100mbps switched lan with no packet
filtering in place.



On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:

> war wrote:
> > Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
> > similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
> > xterm usually.
>
> Let me guess, you have firewalling/packet filter/NAT and the client and
> server are on different subnets?  It's most likely an MTU problem,  see
> [1].
>
> Who looks after the OpenSSH FAQ?  I submitted this but never heard
> anything.
>
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=102413585608801
>
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