Intermittent xfreerdp hang only through VPN

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2015/09/01 16:04, Younes Manton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had this problem for at least a couple of years. Whenever I
> connect to a Windows machine via xfreerdp over my work place VPN the
> xfreerdp client inevitably hangs. Occassionally SSH sessions will also
> hang, but this happens much less often. I never see either problem
> when not connected over VPN.
> 
> I normally run OpenConnect via Network Manager, but I recently ran it
> on the command line with -v to watch the output. As best as I can tell
> the hangs always follow a CSTP rekey and the only thing that's
> different from the usual is that these lines begin to appear:
> 
> Send CSTP Keepalive
> Send CSTP DPD
> Got CSTP DPD response
> 
> They seem to stop being emitted once I kill the unresponsive xfreerdp client.
> 
> On the Windows side I see the following in the Event Viewer every time
> xfreerdp hangs:
> 
> The Terminal Server security layer detected an error in the protocol
> stream and has disconnected the client. Client IP: <my IP>.
> 
> Anything I can do to debug this?

Try reducing the mtu requested (openconnect's -m flag).