I don't know Open-SSH, but is there an option to tel it to get stuff in
smaller packets, then? Or maybe another way to shrink the packets?

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Ignatios Souvatzis [mailto:ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de]
-> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:42 AM
-> Cc: tech-net@netbsd.org
-> Subject: Re: Strange AnonCVS problem: OpenSSH cannot transfer large
-> files?
-> 
-> 
-> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:24:33PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
-> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:16:30AM +0200, Urban Boquist wrote:
-> > > Hi all,
-> > > 
-> > > I see a completely reproducible problem when I cvs 
-> update over ssh
-> > > from anoncvs.netbsd.org. Or more precisely, I see the 
-> problem if I use
-> > > OpenSSH as shipped with NetBSD-current, but not if I use good old
-> > > ssh-1.2.27.
-> > 
-> > This is a bug in OpenSSH -- it crashes if it receives a 
-> packet larger
-> > than 64K.  I can't seem to find a way to exploit it, but 
-> it *does* cause
-> > a pointer reference to random memory...
-> 
-> Any fix available? This doesn't look like something that 
-> should stay in 
-> 1.5, if it can be helped at all...
-> 
-> Regards,
-> 	-is
->