Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing?
With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to Point B then that terminal window will hang till point B is reachable. ionut cucu wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: >>> I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: >>> whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) >>> suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, >>> or if I;m lucky enough I get to do an umount before everything >>> falls. Is there any way to prevent this? >>> Also since this is a lan is there a null encryption algorithm I >>> could use to speed things up a bit? Or lower the CPU usage? >>> Thanks! >> Dude... time for a new switch... >> > Yeah well it's a campus *(1) switch, the campus's *(2) lan, the > campus's *(3) gateway....so on so forth till the A class IP so I can do > nothing about it > > Note *(1) to *(2) are ugly words and shouldn't be used around children -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
