I should add that the hang occurs after an unknown amount of time. -matt On 7/12/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed this in CentOS 4 & 5 and Fedora 5 & 6. If I'm in Gnome > desktop and using any of the terminal programs and I ssh into any > server, the connection just hangs. Not drops, it just hangs and > doesn't recover. > > These servers are all over the country on different ISPs in Tier1 > datacenters. Some are in our office, so they are on the local lan. > We have a mix of RHEL 3, 4 & 5 and CentOS 4 & 5 on the servers. If > I'm using a windows computer with putty or SecureCRT this never > happens, it only happens when I'm using any of our linux desktops or > laptops. It doesn't matter if I'm in the office or at home (on > comcast) or over at a friend's house (verizon dsl). This problem has > been going on for at least two years and I'm finally fed up to the > point where I might switch back to windows since 99% of my job is > working while ssh'ed into servers. > > Anyone had similar problems? > > -matt >