[ale] VPN's

[Gary Maltzen]

Assuming you can so configure the underlying ssh session...

Did you try with compression both enabled and disabled?

       Compression
              Specifies whether to use compression. The  argument
              must be "yes" or "no".

Did you try with the escape character disabled?

       EscapeChar
              Sets the escape character (default: ~).  The escape
              character can also be set on the command line.  The
              argument should be a single character, '^' followed
              by  a letter, or "none" to disable the escape char-
              acter entirely (making the  connection  transparent
              for binary data).

-----Original Message-----
 From: Steve Tynor <tynor at outside.atlanta.twr.com>


We tried decreasing both the PPP MTU and PPP MRU to 296 bytes (256 bytes
plus 40 bytes header).  It had a positive effect, but not much of one.
When the MTU/MRU alone was adjusted, without messing with other PPP
options, the link stayed up a bit longer than normal, and we were able
to retrieve a Web page from our Austin Web site, something which had not
been possible before the MTU change.

If you're not referring to the PPP MTU but the lowest level underlying
transport (ssh's TCP connection itself), no we haven't tried changing
that.  (That may require hacking the ssh source code since there's no
command line option).