On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 20:44 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I notice that when I am logged into my desktop remotely via SSH that I > get frequent pauses sometimes lasting for up to a half a minute or so. > Generally it's not too problematic although it is annoying when typing > an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's all in > one place). > > Is there some way to monitor the connection so that I can see what the > issue might be? It almost seems as though the connection loses sync in > some way. While the pauses occur other network functions from the > laptop seem to work fine. BTW, this seems to occur most frequently over > Wifi even on my home LAN where a solid signal is available and no other > machines are sharing the wireless. <snip> SSH is very sensitive to packet loss which is more prevalent on a wireless link than a wired link. If a packet is lost, it results in an upper layer retransmission which will back off retires in an exponential fashion, e.g., the first retry may wait 2 seconds, then 4, then 8, then 16, etc.
You can try tracing your connection with Wireshark which I believe has an analysis tool which will show you if there are retransmissions. Good luck - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1298437348.22418.40.ca...@denise.theartistscloset.com
