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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:53:19 -0700
From:      "Shaklee3" <shaklee3@sbcglobal.net>
To:        <john_wilson100@excite.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE machine unusable (was Re: Openssh)
Message-ID:  <000501c15dc0$fd6f5340$6401a8c0@cliff>
References:  <21127483.1004058082060.JavaMail.imail@pugsly.excite.com>

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Hey I won't criticize you. I thought that was my dsl doing it but it does
not happen on my windows box. Whenever I start doing something that involves
traffic on my freebsd box it will not respond remotely for about 30 seconds.
Whats up with it?

----- Original Message -----
From: <john_wilson100@excite.com>
To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: <sudz@ns3g.com>; <pascal@emaxx.nl>; <bvi@itouchlabs.com>;
<bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>; <djb@unixan.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: 4.4-STABLE machine unusable (was Re: Openssh)


> Guys,
>
> You can say all you like, but something in stable is totally fscked up.
As
> soon as I log in and start doing anything that involves a bit of traffic
> (e.g. tailing a file), the connection freezes and I have to kill it.
sshd
> doesn't die, so I can log in again.  I can reproducibly freeze it by
> doing... well practically anything:
>
> tail /var/log/messages, vi, cat, etc. all freeze the connection.
Strangely
> enough,
>
> head /var/log/messages
>
> works fine.
>
> At first I thought there was something wrong with the hardware, and that
> perhaps the disks were screwed, that the recent filesystem changes caused
> it, that pipe() was broken, lots of other things.  But everything points
to
> ssh.
>
> "slogin -1" seems to work a bit longer, but also eventually freezes.
>
> Note that BPF is compiled in, so maybe there is some weird interaction
> between ssh and bpf (as Colin Legendre suggested).
>
> I also thought it was a networking problem, but this machine is colocated
> next to a Sun E450 with a similar setup (same subnet), which works fine.
>
> The client ssh I tried were all 2.9p2 (Solaris) and I think 2.9.9p2
> (Solaris).   I also tried to log in from other FreeBSD machines (4.2 and
> 4.3), but the effect was the same.
>
> $ make world > makeworld.log &
>
> generated a 6Mb file as expected.  However, I could neither head nor tail
> it.
>
> Interesting is that Putty (Windows SSH client) doesn't seem to have this
> problem.  I used it for quite a while and it didn't freeze.
>
> Please help me figure out what's going on.   I don't have physical access
to
> the box, and without the ability to view or edit files there's very little
I
> can do.   scp from a remote machine freezes.  scp to a remote machine
> freezes.   There's no telnet or ftp.   How can I even diagnose the
problem?
>
> I am running out of ideas... :(
>
> John Wilson
>
>
>
>
>
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