My CVS problem resolved to ...!

[Munzir Taha]

Hi sirs!
I was facing a strange problem in the past 3 days that denied my access to 
Fedora server. It was so weird that I suspect something related to my 
connection not Fedora repository. I mentioning it here for the record and for 
others who may face such a problem in the future.

Description:
I can checkout out a file, update a file but not a whole folder or module!

[munzir at localhost translate]$ ssh -vvv i18n at redhat.com
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to redhat.com [209.132.177.50] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 209.132.177.50 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host redhat.com port 22: Connection timed out


Resolution:
#ifconfig ppp0 mtu 576

This is an mtu (maximum transmission unit) problem. It defines the maximum 
size of a packet that can be transferred in one frame over a network. mtu is 
hard coded to a default of 1500 in my Fedora Core 3 system which is suitable 
for fast connections like DSL but not dialups.

Questions:
Now! is this a solvable bug? Where do I need to report it? Should ordinary 
users know this weird setting?


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