Grant Parnell wrote: > I had to laugh at Michael's response but am having trouble fathoming how > this could really happen with SSH. That was confusing me too. I now think it's actually some kind of GNOME problem, since sshing from a virtual console window works (poor latency, but no repeated characters), and sshing _in_ from outside works fine. Also, when Mozilla is loading pages over the ADSL connection, the desktop entire gets really really slow and jerky.
Someone suggested checking /etc/hosts, but the localhost entry was already there, and the machine works ok with PPP. So my current theory is along the lines you suggest -- it's an MTU problem and packet fragmentation is hammering the TCP/IP stack badly enough to screw up some kind of network (loopback?) polling by GNOME. The weird thing is that both ping times and scp transfer rates over the ADSL connection are fine. I'm going to give up on the half-bridge setup and try the Roaring Penguing PPOE client. (But the machine is my girlfriend's, so I can't look at it right now.) Danny. (Who is unfortunately on pair-gain -- in North Sydney! -- and can't get ADSL himself :-( ) > Also... what if there's a multi-path route and the packets are going both > ways, one might be delayed sufficiently to not be picked up as a > duplicate... but then again the TCP protocols should take care of this ... > that's what sequence numbers are for. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
