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How to ssh in the face of huge (25 second) latency?

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Mar 15, 20261814 views

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I need to create an ssh connection between two Linux machines running Centos v5 but the latency could be as high as 25 seconds. I find that if I test something approaching this configuration artificially by simulating 7 seconds or more round trip latency using: When I try: It fails after about 1 mi…

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tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 7s

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