XTerm & OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

[war]

XFree86 4.3.0 On Both Machines
Kernel 2.4.21 On Both Machines
Slackware Linux 8.0 On Both Machines (although occurs on other dists too)
OpenSSH 3.6p2 On Both Machines

eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

on both machines

next time it freezes I will check with netstat.


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:

> war wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Well, you're going to have to give us more info.
>
> Server/client OS/version?   Network topology?  802.1q?  OpenSSH at both
> ends?
>
> Try running "netstat -n" at both ends when the connection has hung and
> check the SendQ and RecvQ columns for the ssh connection.
>
> (xfree removed from cc: list)
>
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