'Bad Packet Length' error?

[Rachit Siamwalla]

There is a patch here in the list archives that fixes these types of
problems:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=97751386931920&w=2

(i believe the latest snapshot will work too).

-rchit

Ben Ricker wrote:
> 
> After upgrading my client with 2.4p1, I started getting the folowing
> errors when using slogin to login to a server:
> 
> 2f 75 73 72 2f 6c 6f 63
> Disconnecting: Bad packet length 796226418.
> 
> Thinking it was the 2.4 upgrade, I uninstalled 2.4 and reinstalled 2.3
> client. Problem still exists. I have OpenSSH 2.3 installed as the server.
> 
> I even deleted the key entry on the client side by editing the
> 'known_hosts' file. Still get that error message. Strangely enough, I
> can ssh into other boxes and then ssh into the box I cannot ssh into
> directcly!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Ben Ricker
> Senior Web Administrator
> US-Rx, inc.