There is a computer several hundred kilometres distant from me that I use for backing up data. The other day I had to reboot it, and things have not been the same. Most of the time I can't get in: my ssh connection hangs on the key exchange (usually expecting KEX_ECHD or some such). But every now and then, if the wind is right, I get through that -- and once I managed to get all the way in, though it hung without giving me a command-line prompt. The messages given (using ssh -vvv) made me suspect that it's the window size of the packets. In some sense that's good news, since I know there is a firmware bug in the ethernet driver so I have to set the mtu < 1500 (and I usually set it to 1492 after rebooting). Thing is, I can't log on, so I can't reset the mtu, so ... Apart from having someone else go reboot the machine, is there anything I can do at a distance? (Apart from despair, that is; I have that covered.) Probably not. But the knowledgeable people on this list often surprise me with things I didn't know about or thought impossible. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42