Re: ssh may be crashing my Linksys router

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 08/04/05 

Date: 04 Aug 2005 17:15:27 GMT

On 2005-08-04, scrunchy2k@yahoo.com <scrunchy2k@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is going to sound paranoid, but I can't explain it
> in any other way. I will log in to my home server from afar
> using ssh, on a port other than the usual ssh port. I've
> set up port forwarding on my Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless
> router so that my server is accessible. However very often
> in the middle of an ssh session (using Putty), the router
> will crash.

There's a documented history[1] of certain versions of Linksys firmware
screwing up SSH connections, a bit of payback is only fair :-)

It's possible that the router is crashing due to buffer exhaustion or
something. If you're connecting into an ADSL service the then the
bulk of the data transfer is in the opposite direction normal. If this
is the cause then you might reduce the level of problems by enabling
compression on the connection. Does the same thing happen if you host
a high-volume service (chargen would be a good test for this).

[1] http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510 

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