[cvsnt] Ssh protocol && socket error

[Paul Blair]

OK, I'm up to CVSNT 2.0.11 and am still getting the same socket 
error Keith reported back in January. I've searched the CVSNT 
archive for any other discussion of this issue and haven't 
found anything--any updates?

The symptoms I'm seeing is that when checking out a number of
different projects using the :extssh: protocol, the CVS client 
sometimes hangs. Setting compression to 0 means that it hangs 
more often, setting compression to 9 means that it hangs less 
often--but I rarely get through an entire checkout of 17 
assorted projects without at least one, and usually two, hangs.
Most of the time CVS hangs after finishing checking out the
largest projects, but not always.

Thanks,

Paul

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55:07 GMT Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:20:25 -0500, "Keith D. Zimmerman"
><kzimmerman at eshcom.com> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to use the new :ssh: protocol in cvsnt.  Whenever I do cvs
>>update on a small repository, it works ok.  If I do cvs update on a
>>larger one, it'll fail.  If I use compression, it'll work in that one,
>>but then I move on to an even larger one, and no matter what I do with
>>compression, it fails.  It seems like the protocol fails when dealing
>>with a large list of updates...
>>
>>The error message I am getting is:
>>       cvs [update aborted]: writing to server socket: error -1
>>
>>Any ideas?  Is there a better way to use ssh with cvsnt?  Or a better
>>way to give external, encrypted access?
>
>Make sure you're using the latest version, as ssh is constantly
>improving (the repository size issue sounds like something I fixed a
>couple of versions ago).   At he moment using something like plink.exe
>with :ext: is more stable if you want fewer hassles (more people have
>experience with it so it's probably easier to solve problems).
>
>Tony