Problems connecting with SSH2

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Fri Feb 15 13:23:19 EST 2008


Hi,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:54:15AM -0500, joes at theworld.com wrote:
> Today my machine was updated to version 4.1p1 and it has a problem.
> When I try to make an SSH2 connection to an external machine,
> everything seems to work right up to the very end:
> 
>   Received disconnect from 192.74.137.71: 2: Invalid ssh2 packet type: 192

This is a local packet type introduced by the remote sshd for some
private use. (Like 192.168.x.y IP addresses.)

OpenSSH doesn't like these. Maybe it should simply ignore packet
types between SSH2_MSG_LOCAL_MIN and SSH2_MSG_LOCAL_MAX, rather
than disconnect?


//Peter


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