Thank you sir

I did set 1472 as mtu on rtr. Set it back to 1500. Bang. Back in business. 

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> On Jan 7, 2020, at 9:51 PM, Ryan Rawdon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 7, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Bejiita78 . <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> has anyone ever noticed that locally a system may respond just fine, but
>> running a command like port make install or top would cause the ssh session
>> to hang indefinitely?
> 
> This is a common sign of a MTU mismatch on a network segment somewhere 
> between your client and the server (large segments/packets/frames go into a 
> black hole and nobody knows); or the path has a properly-configured reduced 
> MTU, but the server is sending the traffic with the Don’t Fragment bit set 
> (IP header); but the device in the path dropping it due to a smaller MTU is 
> not successfully having Packet Too Big ICMP errors get back to the server.  
> 
> If you perform a packet capture on the server, you will likely see it 
> retransmitting one or more segments over and over - but not see those 
> arriving to the client.  
> 
> The approach to diagnosing the point of the issue being introduced (MTU 
> mismatch, ICMP filtering, or the server not utilizing ICMP PTB responses 
> properly) depends largely on the network topology between your client and 
> server; and your ability to investigate or reproduce the symptoms in systems 
> along that path.
> 
> There are plenty of other potential causes for this behavior, but this is the 
> first one I would investigate if experiencing this issue.  Have there been 
> any network changes near your client or server that might have meddled with 
> MTU sizes or ICMP blocking?
> 
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