FC5 - ssh freezes

[Jay Cliburn]

Michelle Gates wrote:
> All,
> 
> Recently installed FC5 on a new HP server... installed it into our colo site
> and am seeing some strange behaviour. When I ssh into the box, the command
> line freezes if I request too much info. Something as simple as 'ifconfig'
> or even 'ls' will cause my session to freeze after about 3 lines of text.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this before? Could it be some strange hardware
> problem?
> 
> Any help appreciated as my boss has put a ridiculous time-line on this
> project!

TCP window scaling issue?  On the Fedora box, execute

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0

and see if your connection works better.

Jay