SSH hang question

[Stuart Henderson]

It was reported on VMware not VirtualBox but perhaps the NATs are similarly 
broken - it might be worth trying to revert the change from old style QoS 
to diffserv by setting "IPQoS lowdelay throughput".

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On 15 November 2019 14:29:39 Steve McAfee <smcafee.social at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the feedback on the OpenSSH hang. I'm going to ask the
> customer to review mtu in their configuration first to see if they can find
> a problem. Also, if their host OS is windows there are some things
> suggested to check, but I don't think it is windows. If it ever happens
> again I'll try to investigate more as suggested by Darren before we
> interrupt it.
>
> steve
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:29 AM Philipp Marek <philipp at marek.priv.at> wrote:
>
>> ISTR that I've read about some bugs with packet traversal through VM NAT
>> setups.
>> It was something about the RST packet triggering NAT destruction but not
>> being relayed further all the time (some race condition?!), that sounds
>> as if it fit the bill here.
>>
>>
>> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20579 comes close but
>> is a bit old...
>>
>>
>> You could try to use the TCP keepalive settings in SSH, and/or to reduce
>> the MTU size (as mentioned in another mail here already).
>>
>>
>> Else a few more setup details might help...
>>
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