ssh problem

[rikona]

ssh stops working. I initiate the ssh contact in terminal; connects
reliably. I can ^C to stop it OK. I sometimes get a "broken pipe"
message, but can reconnect easily from the CLI.

The problem is sometimes [more often than not] ssh just quits working
- no message in terminal, and ^C will NOT do anything. Terminal is not
responding to keyboard input. If I close the terminal window it warns
me that something is still running and it will stop if I close
terminal. I usually just close the window and start ssh again in a new
terminal window.

What might be happening to ssh? What is the best way to diagnose this?
Best of all, is there a way to keep this from happening? It has become
a PITA. Before the last few updates, I do not recall this happening. I
run 10.04, updated.

Thanks,

  rikona