Stalls and closes

[Tuc at T-B-O-H]

> 
> Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	Trying to SSH to a server over an OPENVPN link, and it seems to be
> > stalling , and then closing the connection. Can I do some command line magic
> > to stop the stall, or get a password in before it closes?
> 
> if your transport is flakey, then no.
>
	Interesting... I didn't mention that the transport is... Not FLAKEY,
but SLOW. (Satellite on the remote end). How did you come to that 
determination? (Just for the future so I can see it in debug others might
send me). I don't have much packet loss :

-bash-2.05b$ ping -c 10 10.2.0.2
PING 10.2.0.2 (10.2.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=837.061 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=813.067 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=840.012 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=892.644 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=863.727 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=835.055 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=776.231 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=858.098 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=838.773 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.0.2: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=890.295 ms

--- 10.2.0.2 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 776.231/844.496/892.644/32.887 ms

>
> On the other hand, both the client
> and the server are quite old versions, so you should consider updating.
> 
	The client is old, admitted, FreeBSD 4.10, but the server was
just installed, FreeBSD 5.4! 

	I forgot to mention that it stalls after :

debug1: next auth method to try is keyboard-interactive


	also.....

	I was hoping for a way to fix it, its a 9 hour drive to the beachhouse
that that server is at... 

		Thanks, Tuc/TBOH