Bad packet length error

[Steve VanDevender]

Darren Tucker writes:
 > "Hari (E-mail)" wrote:
 > > 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.
 > > This works fine for ssh protocol version 1, but am getting the below error
 > > for ssh v2:
 > > 
 > > Disconnecting: Bad packet length -857542839.
 > 
 > There has been a history of "bad packet length" errors that were fixed by
 > upgrading the version of zlib used.  What version are you using, and does
 > the problem go away if you recompile openssh with zlib 1.4?

Version number confusion seems to be the order of the day.

The most recent version of zlib is 1.1.4, which also fixes some
security issues in 1.1.3.