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From: Marwan Fayed <mfayed@cs.bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: remote logins hang (new info)
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Marwan Fayed wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Marwan Fayed wrote:
> >
> > > I have a situation that is extremely peculiar. My problem is easily
> > > described but not so easily diagnosed. When I login to my freebsd server
> > > from a remote host (on local network), after a random amount of time the
> > > connection just hangs -- unless I hit a key on the keyboard. The
> > > connection just freezes and sits there
> > > forever (or until the localhost resets the connection).
> >
> > As it turns out, I do not need to be connected for the problem to
> > occur. There have been times when I telnet/ssh/ping/etc to the machine and
> > there is no response -- unless I walk over to it and hit a key on the
> > keyboard.
> 
> sorry if I say something wrong but, it seems as if your computer is
> hibernating. check your bios settings.

I will check this when I get home. I have my doubts, however, as
connections can hang even during file transfers! Any other ideas in the
meantime?

--marwan