ihk419 wrote:
> I am running a fresh installation of Slackware 9.0 in a Pentium 166, 32MB
> RAM, 8GB box. I moved all of my web content and other files from another
> Pentium 166 but with 64MB RAM that was running Slackware 8.0.
>
> I have a Windows machine that I use as my real computer and I transfer all
> of my web content to the linux server via SSH. When I tried sending some
> files to the new Slackware 9.0 server everything was fine until the que got
> to a large (65MB) file. The SSH client crashed after about 5 or 6 MB at
> 500-650 kBs. The error said
>
> Server responded"Corrupted MAC on input"
>
> A protocol error was detected. This usually indicates a bug in the SSH
> application(either client or server).
>
> I downloaded the newest version of SSH from SSH.com and got the exact same
> error after uninstalling and reinstalling the new client.
>
>
> Is my P 166/ 16MB RAM machine just too slow to handle the transfer or is
> there a bug or some incompatability between my client and server?
>
> Here are some details.
>
> SSH Client
> 3.2.5(Build280) from SSH.com
> non-commercial version w/o PKI and PKCS#11
>
> SSH Server
> OpenSSH_3.5p1

I don't know what the problem is but there has been several
openSSH security updates lately. It is now at version 3.7.1p2
which is in the patches directory at one of the mirror sites.

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