Ssh via vpn: typing commands hangs (is slow)

Question

Hello all,
for a long time i have got an annoying problem and i would like to fix it in the near future.
Establishing an ssh-connection via vpn from my Maxbook tomy FreeBSDsystem works
without any problems: the the password-prompt immediately.
But typing in any commands is very slow, it seems to hang anyhow. Typing with a normal
speed is impossible because all letters after the first letters are missing. After 1-2 seconds
the appear and i could keep on typing.
Erasing is the same: i hit the key and it takes a while until the letters are disappearing.
It remembers me a little bit at the keyboard-settings of MacOS itself: there you can configure
the speed and so on.
Has anybody an idea how to fix this?
Here some general annotations:
1) it is MacOS independent (10.5. and 10.6)
2) is is FreeBSD idenpedent (8.0 and 8.2)
3) it is terminal-application independent (MacOS-terminal and 3rdparty terminal).
Thank you very much, Stefan

Answer 1

Hi Darren,
The user's vim session dies when the users are actively typing.
As for there being a firewall or NAT device between the workstation and the server, yes, there is. The users are in one building and the server is housed in a datacenter in a separate building. The users do not have this issue with out other Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 servers...only this one particular server. A traceroute to the server takes only 5 hops and returns quickly.
As for the logs, I just checked /var/adm/messages and it is reporting the following types of messages over and over.:
[ID 317013 daemon.notice] bpcd[11746] from some IP
I think these messages are generated from Veritas Netbackup which is administered by a separate team than what I am on, but I can have them investigate.