[techtalk] sshd recvd big packet?

[Brian Sweeney]

Hey all-

I think I may have posted this before.  If so, sorry for the repeat.  Here's
the deal; I'm getting the following in my logs for a few different machines:

sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 2908, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 2940, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 4064, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 3536, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 5: rcvd big packet 3300, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 5: rcvd big packet 2940, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 8: rcvd big packet 2940, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 8: rcvd big packet 2940, maxpack 2048
sshd[8683]: channel 8: rcvd big packet 3316, maxpack 2048

I have *NO* idea what this means.  I tried we surfing, looked through stuff
on ssh; no dice.  I did notice they were all RHL7.1 boxes...known issue?
Didn't find anything @ RedHat's site though.

Any guesses?

-Brian

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Brian Sweeney
bsweeney at physics.ucsb.edu

"The life expectancy of an unpatched, default installation of Red Hat 6.2
server is three days. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system
was compromised in eight hours."
-The Honeynet Project