Bad packet length error

[Jason McCormick]

> I am running sshd (openssh-2.9p2) on a power-pc LynxOS box, and am
> connecting from a ssh client (openssh-2.9p2) on an x86 Linux box.

Please try upgrading to a current version.  The current version is 
OpenSSH 3.6p1.  Many bugs of this sort have been fixed long ago.

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