OpenSSH 7.8p1 drops SSH connection with "Broken Pipe" IMMEDIATELY after successful login

[Ohad Frenkel]

The virtualization is VMware Workstation 12.x, NOT Fusion.
Again, I'd like to point that downgrading to 7.7p2 "solved" the issue and that I'm using the same virtualization software for ages (which makes me disbelieve the issue lies with it).

I've seen the comment about zero-length passwords... I'm not techie enough to understand the code there (or the technical explanation), but it is true that my previous SSH keys were password-less (if that is the meaning of "zero-length password").
I say "previous" because one of the first things I did, trying to solve this on my end, was to assume the problem was with the keys and thus generated a new set of keys, all of which have positive value of characters in the password (which, by the way, did not solve the case. As I said, only downgrading to 7.7p2 did the trick).
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From: Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net>
Sent: 28 August 2018 22:18
To: Ohad Frenkel
Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
Subject: Re: OpenSSH 7.8p1 drops SSH connection with "Broken Pipe" IMMEDIATELY after successful login

On 28 August 2018 at 13:36, Ohad Frenkel <ohadfjunkbox at outlook.com> wrote:
>   *   OS: Antergos Linux (Fully updated daily) (Running as a guest on VM).

If the VM host is VMWare Fusion, see
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2018-August/037145.html
wherein it appears to have a bug in its networking stack that chokes
on the new default (valid) DSCP markings.  If so you can work around
it by overriding the defaults, but the problem is within VMWare (maybe
in general, or maybe just the Fusion product).

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