[Gllug] ssh problem - lots of duplicate ACKs but no shell

Thu Mar 15 19:31:23 UTC 2007

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:01, Richard Jones wrote:

> You can also use "ping -s packetsize" to send packets of a particular
> size to a remote machine.  Send packets of an increasing size until
> they stop appearing at the remote end.  You may also need "-M do"
> which stops the packets from being fragmented.

Thanks - that's very useful. It shows that the problem isn't to do with the 
MTU! That transferring a large file with pscp (the Putty version of scp) 
works: if MTU discovery wasn't working I don't see who Putty would be immune.

Any other ideas why ssh gets stuck and plink doesn't?

regards,
TomSW
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