https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/tags/ssh/ Recent content in Ssh on Noetic Nought Hugo en-US © 2006-2026 CC-BY-SA-4.0 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/mtu-and-file-transfers/ Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/mtu-and-file-transfers/ <p>A note to self, but may benefit someone facing a similar problem.</p> <ul> <li> <p><strong><strong>Problem</strong>:</strong> SSH-ing to our server was working well. But, file transfers like <code>scp</code>, <code>git push</code> were failing.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><strong>Diagnosis</strong>:</strong> I had been thinking it was a problem with our campus network on the first night and was too sleepy to try and fix it. But things didn&rsquo;t improve even after one full day. Then I asked a friend of mine, and he confirmed that he has been facing the same problem for a couple of days. I then tried file transfers to another server and it was working fine. Then I tried file transfers between the two servers and even that worked fine!</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><strong>Solution</strong>:</strong> After some googling, I figured that the problem was with a machine between me and the server. Changing the <code>mtu</code> to 1492 from 1500 on the server, fixed the problem. :)</p> </li> </ul>