From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 11:23:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D576516A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B56F43D31 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9997 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DE3ww-0005KP-KA; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:22:58 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F312841A7; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:25:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (f80052.upc-f.chello.nl [80.56.80.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E39258D6D3; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:23:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:22:56 +0100 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: Riaan Annandale Message-Id: <20050323122256.225a3a13.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050323095553.GJ10511@za.tiscali.com> References: <20050323095553.GJ10511@za.tiscali.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh sessions getting "paused" on idle X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:01 -0000 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:55:53 +0200 Riaan Annandale wrote: > I ssh to anything over 10 machines at a time and leave the xterms > idle. When I come back to a session and press enter / start typing, it > takes a few seconds to come alive. Almost as if the connection got > canned. > > Do you think this could be ipfw related? Or is it a switch that i have > to specify somewhere? i can only tell you that when i'm using a not so good internet-connection my ssh-sessions suffer from that in a similar way as you described here, some people told me that ssh can be given highest priority with a traffic shaper (i think ipfw can do that too), that could solve this problem