[Portable OpenSSH] hang up during login after OpenSSH 7.3 upgrade

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Aug 17 14:06:42 AEST 2016


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com> wrote:
[....]
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
> <hangs here>

Smells like a path MTU black hole.  See
http://www.snailbook.com/faq/mtu-mismatch.auto.html for some
suggestions.

> But dbclient (from Dropbear) works instead with the same setup (and server),
> asking me the password as expected.

dbclient supports fewer algorithms and its network traffic is
correspondingly smaller, which makes it less likely to trip the
threshold (same for older opensshs).

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