Nice idea Tobias, but I forgot to mention both machines are on the same LAN, 
and the LAN is operating with standard MTU, no jumbos.




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On Saturday, 9 March 2024 at 17:02, Tobias Fiebig 
<tob...@reads-this-mailinglist.com> wrote:

> Might be MTU? Can you try what happens with `find /` ?
> 
> If it freezes then, too:
> 
> On both machines:
> 
> ping -s 1252 -D $remote_IP
> 
> if it works, increase by half the way to 1472, try if it still works:
> 
> ping -s 1362 -D $remote_IP
> 
> etc.
> 
> If it does not work, you half the distance to the previously working
> one, e.g.:
> 
> ping -s 1362 -D $remote_IP << works
> 
> ping -s 1417 -D $remote_IP << does not work
> 
> then next:
> 
> ping -s 1390 -D $remote_IP
> 
> If you use IPv6, you need to decrease the starting/end value by 20 and
> use ping6, i.e., as min 1232 and as max 1452; If the hosts cannot reach
> each other directly (NAT), it depends on the path which addr to use;
> Would need traceroutes between the hosts then.
> 
> The assumption would be that you do have an MTU issue on-path there,
> which is not correctly signaled. This only hits as soon as the packets
> get a size larger than the MTU, e.g., when typing dmesg (or find /).
> 
> With best regards,
> Tobias
> 
> On Sat, 2024-03-09 at 16:07 +0000, Laura Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've got a fresh install of 7.4 on a new box and am seeing a very
> > weird problem.
> > 
> > If I enter "dmesg" I get a few lines of output and then it hangs and
> > my ssh connection gets dropped. I ran syspatch, rebooted and the
> > problem persists.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > # dmesg
> > MX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-
> > CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2
> > ,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,R
> > DTSCP,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,TSC_ADJUST,BMI1,AVX2,SM
> > EP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,CLWB,PT,SHA,UMIP,PKU,
> > WAITPKG,PKS,MD_CLEAR,IBT,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,SENSOR,ARAT,IBRS_A
> > LL,SKIP_L1DFL,MDS_NO,IF_PSCHANGE,TAA_NO,MISC_PKG_CT,ENERGY_FILT,DOITM
> > ,SBDR_SSDP_N,FBSDP_NO,PSDP_NO,RRSBA,OVERCLOCK,XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XGETBV1
> > ,XSAVES
> > cpu19: 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 64KB 64b/line 8-way I-cache, 2MB
> > 64b/line 16-way L2 cache, 30MB 64b/line 12-way L3 cache
> > cpu19: smt 0, core 35, package 0
> > cpu20 at mainbus0: apid 72 (application processor)
> > cpu20: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900TE, 3392.18 MHz, 06-97-02,
> > patch 00000025
> > Timeout, server 10.1.2.3 not responding.

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