On 09/10/2013 02:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > fedora wrote: > >>> I'm having a curious problem communicating with a remote site of mine. >>> I can access the site with "ssh -Y alfred-vpn" without any problem. >>> But then any command, eg cat, vim, tail, >>> that gives more than a minimal response, >>> causes the connection to hang, that is, to cease accepting any input, >>> and I see no way to revive the connection >>> except to kill the sshd entry from another ssh connection to the site, >>> or else just to close the local window. >>> >>> For example, "sudo tail -9 /var/log/messages" works, >>> but not if I replace 9 with 20.[tim@alfred ~]$ ifconfig tun0 > >> Different MTU and fragmentation disabled? > > Thanks for your response. > But the MTU seems to be 1500 at both ends > (unless the modem at the remote end can change it?) The MTU of the tunnel is probaby too big. There are a lot of approaches to this kind of issues. As a first try, "ifconfig tun0 1000" on both sides of the tunnel, then check again with a new ssh session. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org