Hello, Having a problem for some time now on a OBSD 3.8 machine.
When I log with SSH (using putty) into the machine from the local network, all works fine... but when I try to login via the internet (outside) with SSH it wont work. I get the logon prompt, give my name+password and then the SSH just sits there... Nothing happens anymore...(after a while it times out) I read about MTU issues : http://www.snailbook.com/faq/background-jobs.auto.html This is something that I had problems with on this location. The system is used for a VPN (towards a other OBSD 3.8 box). The RDP (terminal server) connections where dropped all the time...something about "blackhole routers and MTU sizes". To solve this I placed the following in PF : scrub in all max-mss 1250 no-df scrub out all max-mss 1250 no-df That worked for my RDP sessions...but perhaps this is the reason my SSH login does not work ? Perhaps....but when I disabled the Firewall for a moment (and therefore these settings where not active anymore), to see if it was a Firewall related problem, I still had this problem. I tried the above (see link) but still it won't work... ....help ! regards Willem
