On Thursday 28 February 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing? > > > With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes > unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to > Point B then that terminal window will hang till point B is reachable.
Ha! I was blaming MSWindows for causing the PC to hang whenever I was trying to connect to the office file server (through a VPN session). My reasoning went that I shouldn't lose the whole machine for 10 minutes, while waiting for an error that it couldn't authenticate me on the domain controller. I blamed the OS for being stupid of course (not withstanding the outsourced tech support who can't fix it). In the sense that neither Linux, nor Gentoo constitutes a stupid OS, I think this is a bug. Fine for the application/terminal to crash, but not the whole machine. -- Regards, Mick
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