OpenSSH stops at "SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP"

[Darren Tucker]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:43:38PM +0200, Sipos Botond wrote:
> I also post here this messages, maybe it's a bug.
> 
> I have a problem with Cygwin OpenSSH, I hope somebody can help me out.
> Since we reinstalled our machine we can't connect any external hosts,
> but we can connect the gateway server.
> The same box is when booted up with linux (Debian unstable) just works fine.
> The problem is, that ssh stops at "expecting
> SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP" and remains here forever!

That's characteristic of a MTU+firewall problem (the MTU is probably
configured differently on each of your OSes).

See: http://www.snailbook.com/faq/mtu-mismatch.auto.html

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