rsync w/ openssh hangs on linux

[Martin Pool]

On  4 Jan 2002, Dave Dykstra <dwd at bell-labs.com> wrote:
> Well I don't see anything in the send queues so that's not likely to be the
> problem.  It doesn't seem likely that anybody else would be able to easily
> reproduce your setup.  I suspect your Internet Sharing setup since you have
> also experienced web sites stalling.

PPPOE in combination with masquerading often causes problems to do
with packet MTU with similar symptoms: heavily used connections hang
during transfers.  I don't know if this would be a problem with
WinPOET.

You could try 

  # ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200

on the firewalled Linux box.

--
Martin