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I'm having trouble executing long commands with ssh. The following works fine:

echo 'cd /home/www; echo aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssddddddddddddddddffffffffffffffffffffffffggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh' \
    | ssh -p '32' www@hostname /bin/bash

If I add another char to the command, ssh hangs indefinitely. If I first log in and then enter my command interactively, there is no length limit; unfortunately, I need to run the (generated) command from a script, so that doesn't solve the problem.

Versions for both client and server: OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5.

What can be the problem?

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  • can you scp a large file to the same server without hangs? Jul 17, 2012 at 8:04
  • Looks like a network issue to me. Jul 17, 2012 at 8:06

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It seems to be not SSH problem, but the problem of your network, or rather it MTU settings. Such problem described in detail here.

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