Hello everyone, I seem to be having some strange behavior with OpenSSH
and was hoping someone can offer me some insight.

Dell Poweredge 2950 Rack Mount Server
Red Hat Linux Enterprise AS 4.0
All updates, kernel and security patches have been applied
I have about 50 Red Hat machines on my network, all are configured the
same and this machine is the only one with an issue.

In a nutshell, if you SSH to the machine sometimes it works, and
sometimes it doesn't.
Usually, if you can't SSH to the machine you just keep trying and
eventually it seems to allow you to connect and once it does it will
allow others to connect, for a while, before it dies again.  Here is
an example of what I mean:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 90 % ssh thera df -lk
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 91 % ssh thera df -lk
ssh: connect to host thera port 22: Connection refused
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 92 % ssh thera df -lk
ssh: connect to host thera port 22: Connection refused
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 93 % ssh thera df -lk
ssh: connect to host thera port 22: Connection refused
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 % ssh thera df -lk
ssh: connect to host thera port 22: Connection refused
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 95 % ssh thera df -lk
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             20641788   7711284  11881864  40% /
none                   2020772         0   2020772   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3            113534884  32996808  74770744  31% /export/home0
/dev/sda2            113534884  44551504  63216048  42% /export/home1
/dev/sda5            103210940  33640452  64327680  35% /export/home2
/dev/sda8             10317828    146812   9646900   2% /opt
/dev/sda7             20641788     78760  19514388   1% /tmp
/dev/sda6             20641788    174688  19418460   1% /usr/local
/dev/sda9             10317828    299140   9494572   4% var


As you can see, it failed 5 times, then it allowed the connection.
I've changed network cables and ports and that didn't help, I ran
"mtr" but it didn't report any packet loss to the machine.  I changed
the logging level to DEBUG3 but nothhing is being reported other than
"Connection Closed" and "Failed none" messages.

Does anyone have any ideas?  If you need further information just let me know.

Thank you in advance,

mike

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