[PLUG] ssh problem...

[Larry Brigman]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>  Another symptom of the problem is that an ssh session to this
>>> machine will often times lock up when I run a command like cat on a
>>> large file.  [...]
>
> Larry> Is it possible that your machine has be compromised or having a
> Larry> man in the middle attack?
>
> It turns out ssh really doesn't like packet loss.  People usually
> don't notice this on wired networks with good reliability, but over
> lossy wireless links you get rather too familiar with it.
>

I missed the part about this being a wireless link until later in the
conversation.