OpenSSH Always Hangs When Connecting to Remote

[Ángel González]

On 20/09/15 20:28, Carlo Abelli wrote:
> On 09/20/2015 03:25 AM, Darren Tucker wrote:
>> I suspect a path mtu problem.  The key exchange packet is one of the
>> first large ones in an SSH connection so it tends to show up such problems.
>>
>> Seehttp://www.snailbook.com/faq/mtu-mismatch.auto.html
> Has this been changed? SSH used to work fine on my old machine. My local
> mtu and server mtu are higher than required. Therefore the only thing I
> could expect would be a lower mtu on the vpn. Has this changed in recent
> versions. As previously I was using OSX I expect the OpenSSH version was
> older. Still strange to me that it worked before and not now. I will
> test tomorrow to see if connecting on the actual network solves the issue.
New versions tend to add more key exchanges, so yes. You can also use
ssh -o KexAlgorithms=<algos use by dropbear> to test the hypothesis.