Unable to connect: Invalid ssh2 packet type: 254
X-Win32 version 6.1 patch level 3 (i.e. 6.1.3) occasionally reports one of the following errors on starting a SSH session.
SSH Errors
- Unable to connect: Invalid ssh2 packet type: 254
- Unable to connect: Invalid ssh2 packet type: 0
It has been reported that this happens with particular remote operating systems, such as Fedora Core 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, but it likely happens with other remote operating systems as well.
StarNetSSH in X-Win32 6.1.3 had a problem that caused this error to occur. This problem was fixed in X-Win32 7.0 and later. In addition, X-Win32 8 features an all new SSH connection module that improves stability and speed significantly.

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