Re: Problems with OpenBSD's sshd and SOCKS5 via dante lib?

[Alexander_(_dot_)_Farber_(_at_)_t-online_(_dot_)_de (Alexander Farber)]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:39:38PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Alexander Farber <eedalf_(_at_)_eed_(_dot_)_ericsson_(_dot_)_se> wrote:
> 
> > If I don't do much at that prompt, everything is fine. 
> > But whenever I start something producing much output,
> > like reading a bigger man page, using mutt or donkey_s
> > then the connection hangs and after some time gets lost.
> > 
> > I suspect that it is a problem of OpenBSD, because I have 
> > 2 more logins:
> > 
> >     [alex_(_at_)_kawoserv alex]$ uname -a
> >     Linux kawoserv 2.2.19-kserv #8 Sat Aug 11 21:28:47 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
> > 
> >     zais:simplex {501} uname -a
> >     FreeBSD zais.pair.com 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jul
> > 10 13:03:22 EDT 2001    
> > sigma_(_at_)_naberi_(_dot_)_pair_(_dot_)_com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PAIRp  i386
> 
> Are those machines behind the same ADSL line?

No, they don't use ADSL. Only my box which uses ADSL hangs.

> > Any ideas?
> 
> MTU trouble and consequent loss of large packets?

Thanks! How can I detect it (any log files)? 
Could anyone using the german T-DSL tell me 
a good value for MTU? I currently use:

    pref:alex {105} grep -i m\[tr\]u /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
	set mru 1492
	set mtu 1490

Regards
Alex