Erick Stohr <evisuale at mn.mediaone.net> wrote: > > Just a question, am I missing something or is it just a poor internet > connection, I am logging in remotly via SSH and the damn connection > hangs after about 20 seconds, everytime. I am on a cable connection > connecting to a DSL connection in CA. I don't see any configuration for > SSH (sshd_config) that would be dropping the connection, is this just a > bad connection? (I said connection 5 times ) Could be dropped packets, which can pretty much stop a connection cold for a while (usually a few minutes). Try running ping for a while (ten minutes or something). I'm not exactly sure what the best way to fix this would be, but I think there are some tunable parameters for TCP retransmission times in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ A nudist school's colors / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ were clear white and \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) clear blue. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010826/5108bab5/attachment.pgp