https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818507 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818507#c0 Summary: get "connection reset by peer" when connecting to certain networks. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: zadeck@naturalbridge.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 The root cause of this bug appears to be that ssh can generate packets that are either malformed or appear to be malformed to certain routers. When the routers see these packets, they shut down the stream. This appears to be a difficult bug to reproduce in that if you do not have one the the offending routers in the path, you will never recreate the bug. This is almost certainly the same bug which is in later versions of ubuntu. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/708493 in my case, the bug occurs whenever i access the corporate network of my employer. The resolution suggested in this bug report, i.e limiting the list of ciphers, does work for me. My guess is that no one in suse/novell will ever fix this bug unless they or one of their paying customers hit it themselves. However, it is useful to have the bug report here since it contains a useful workaround. As far as i can tell, there is no known fix for the bug. The workaround is just a hack. At this point it seems to be infecting the cutting edge distros, when it gets into the for pay/trailing edge distros some one will pay to have someone fix it in their own corporate network. This bug does not happen in opensuse 11.4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh to some machine that is one the other end of routers that do not like the bad packet. 2. the ssh will die quickly. 3. Actual Results: connection reset by peer Expected Results: you get to ssh in. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.