[rhn-users] [resolved] ps -ef, netstat -lnt commands hanging

[Tom Hodder]

Quoting Tom Hodder <tom at ecnow.co.uk>:

> I can't work out what is common here, It happens with public key auth,
> password/keyboard, but the same stuff on another workstation these commands
> work fine. It doesn't happen on logins to fedora core 3 boxes on another
> network, only RHEL3 boxes on 1 particular network connected via VPN 
> connection.

It seems that this problem was caused by a too high setting of the MTU for the
cisco VPN connection I was using. Using the Set MTU utility I set the MTU to
1300, and the problem was gone.

Thanks for the help!

Tom