Openvpn hanging?

[fedora]

Different MTU and fragmentation disabled?

suomi

On 09/10/2013 01:11 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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> I'm having a curious problem communicating with a remote site of mine.
> I can access the site with "ssh -Y alfred-vpn" without any problem.
> But then any command, eg cat, vim, tail,
> that gives more than a minimal response,
> causes the connection to hang, that is, to cease accepting any input,
> and I see no way to revive the connection
> except to kill the sshd entry from another ssh connection to the site,
> or else just to close the local window.
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> For example, "sudo tail -9 /var/log/messages" works,
> but not if I replace 9 with 20.
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> It seems to me that there has been some corruption at the remote site -
> there may well have been a power-outage or something like that.
> I've tried re-installing several packages, eg coreutils, sendmail .
> I've also tried re-starting all the services that might be involved,
> eg openvpn, network, shorewall.
>
> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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