big packets?

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Sun Jul 22 06:29:58 EST 2001


i think this is a bug in your sftp client.

it seems that openssh announce a maximum packet
size of 16K and the clients sends a bigger payload.

in case i'm wrong then i have to check the specs again.

-m

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:57:44AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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



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