I have had no end of trouble connecting by ssh to my main Mac Pro. Whenever I would type “ls -1″ in a directory containing many files, the connection would time out. This problem came and went away periodically. Owen pointed me to a sane explanation which has to do with evil firewalls. It looks like I solved my problems (for now) by typing “sudo ifconfig en0 mtu 576″ in a server shell. It has nothing to do with ssh or Apple or MacOS.

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  1. sudo sudo is a powerful magic word in unix administration. It works for most problems.

    Comment by Eran — 27/5/2008 @ 8:35

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