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Also see When I try to use sftp or scp2, I get a message like this: Received message too long (or "Bad packet length") .

From: Xiaotian Sun <sunx@berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: sshd/Linux problems
Date: 14 Aug 2000 02:35:53 GMT
Message-ID: <8n7lu9$6an$1@agate.berkeley.edu> 
References: <mprogers-D5D00D.19313513082000@news.ilstu.edu> 

it's protocol problem.  ssh1 and ssh2 are not compatible with 
each other.  I think F-Secure is running ssh1 protocol.  I'll 
suggest you to change to ssh1 server, which is free, while
ssh2 is not.  Or change to OpenSSH, which is free too.

If for some reason, you still want to use ssh2, in order to
make the server compatible with ssh1 client, you'll have to
still install ssh1 server, and configure the ssh2 config file.
For details, please refer to the document.

Xiaotian

In comp.os.linux.security Michael P. Rogers <mprogers@mail.millikin.edu> wrote:
> Hello,

> I'm using Redhat 6.2 and sshd 2.1.1p1, or trying to.  When I connnect 
> (using F-Secure SSH client) I get a message in the log that says:

> [sshd]:  Protocol Error:  Packet too long -234245325 (or some other long 
> negative number).

> I just used Redhat's rpms, rather than compile anything myself.

> Any idea what's causing this problem?  I've inquired in 
> comp.security.ssh, but nobody there seemed to know :-(

> TIA,

> Michael
> -- 
> Michael P. Rogers
> Millikin University
> mprogers@mail.millikin.edu
> 217-424-6327 (W) 217-424-3993 (F)
> http://math.millikin.edu/mprogers

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