26 May 08 Split access SSH problems

So far everything works flawlessly, all applications, protocols and service with the split access setup, but I have a strange bug with SSH, and it only affects SSH clients built on openssl, such as dropbear and openssh. After authentication, it just hangs, and running in verbose mode shows that it seems to fail upon attempting to resize the tcp window. Only fails occasionally, when it receives no acknowledgement from the server.

After much digging, I only had minimal success getting to the bottom of the issue, but the following hack fixed the issue:
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Tags: cached routes, dropbear, iproute2, iptables, openssh, openssl, routes, split access, ssh, tcp window