[lug] ssh Bad packet length?

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Wed Jun 19 01:30:29 MDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:17:50PM -0600, Rob Riggs wrote:
>>Am having some SSH problems. When I SSH to my machine at home, I am
>>getting "bad packet length" drops, after some time. The disconnect never
>>
>I am having similar problems with SSH connections from work to home 
>(either of two machines). I think this is a network router issue -- 
>possibly even a backbone router. I can consistently make it fail by 

I'm wondering if it's the 3.1p1-3 that's causing the problem.  My systems
here are running 3.1p1-2, and yesterday I transferred a 700MB file over
roughly an hour without any problems.  I'd recommend trying some different
versions on your work machine, Rob.

Sean
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