I apologize if I'm missing the obvious, but does anyone know what causes sshd: channel 0: rcvd big packet 32281, maxpack 16384 The immediate cause seems to be van dyke's windows sftp client. The larger question would seem to be why it's using larger packets than openssh wants to accept. (client is SecureFX 3.3, server is openssh 2.9p2) -- Mike Stone