Hello: My experience with Slackware and a wired local network is like yours. I don't think I have ever experienced ssh crashing when I log in to my ISP to check email or log into another machine on my local network with either ssh or telnet. Wayne
Someone wrote: > I am getting bad packet length followed by disconnects a > lot. > > This machine I am trying to log into is only accessible > through a wireless link originating from a Linksys WAP11. > I have googled and googled and googled and I still can't > figure out why this is happening. The drops are random, > but I don't ever get very far command wise. I don't get > vim up or cat any large files. > > I saw something about login scripts that print messages > to the console crashing ssh, but I don't know if that > is accurate let alone pertinent. Slackware by default > prints messages to the terminal after I log in even > if I come in via ssh. > > I wonder if the 2 wireless cards which are intended > to create 2 different wireless networks from this > server are interrupting each other? This server is > basically intended as a repeater and a camera box. > > Note that I have Slackware 10.1 running on a wired > network booted system and I'm not having any problems > of this nature on that machine. > > mich...@barn:/var/log$ ls > apache/ gdm/ messages removed_packages/ secure > webcam_server.log > Disconnecting: Bad packet length 3823690040. > [plu...@goose ~]$ > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug