Dear All,
I am having intermittent problems connecting from home to my office with ssh which are driving me to distraction. Occasionally it works, but more often, perhaps ~95% of the time, it does not. I have never had similar problems when trying the same thing with the same laptop from places other than home and ‘putty’ on a windows machine always works.
I strongly suspect that it is an issue with my home wireless and/or router but wondered if there was any known issue with ssh which could be contributing?
Any suggestions much appreciated.
I am running openSUSE 10.3, uname -a gives:
Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-06-09 13:53:20 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
and an example of the output when ssh hangs follows
ssh -v username@remote.machine
OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to remote.machine ...] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/username/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_4.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.4 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.6
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host ‘remote.machine’ is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/username/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Offering public key: /home/username/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 435
debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_GB.UTF-8