FC5 - ssh freezes

[Jay Cliburn]

John Horne wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 07:03 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>> Michelle Gates wrote:
>>> Well, so far I can 'ls' as much as I want now!! Let's hope that this
>>> resolves the problem and I can issue more than 2 commands before needing
>>> start a new SSH session. :-)
>> The real problem isn't in the Fedora machine; it's in a middlebox at 
>> your colo, or perhaps in the box you're using as the ssh client. 
>> _Something_ isn't properly handling TCP window scaling (which was 
>> introduced in its fullness in the 2.6.17 kernel).
>>
> So what you are saying is that the problem will still exist even if the
> TCP window scaling is disabled?

If TCP window scaling is disabled on a particular machine, then access 
to/through wscale-broken servers/middleboxes from _that_ particular 
machine will work.