On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:46:31AM +1000, luv-main wrote:
> I've got a Linux system running remotely that has a strange TCP problem, when
> it sends (not receives) a large packet the connection hangs.  For example if I
> ssh in and run commands with small amounts of output everything is fine, but 
> if
> I run "ls -l /" then the connection hangs forever.
>
> My first thought was PMTU discovery, but "ping -M want -s 1400 8.8.8.8" works
> without any problems and also setting the MTU on the only Ethernet device to
> unusually low values (I tried as low as 400 bytes) didn't make any difference.
>
> Any ideas as to what I should try next?
>
> The system in question is a fairly standard AMD64 desktop PC running
> Debian/Jessie.
>
Start a tcpdump to a file before issue ls -l.

Suspect you will see packet not being acknowledged, likely due to faulty
hardware somewhere.

Cheers ... Duncan.
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