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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Very strange packet-forwarding behavior! 
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:36:41 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <1093.826956786@time.cdrom.com> Jordan wrote:
>With ssh eating the line, however, everything else grinds to a screeching 
halt. 
>...  It's like ssh is not only eating all the
>bandwidth, it's eating it at such a "high priority" that absolutely
>nothing else can get through, not even pings.

ssh can potentially set IPTOS_LOWDELAY if you are either using "ssh 
remotehost" (e.g. no command) *or* if X forwarding succeeds.  Try using "ssh 
-x".

  Bill