Why my live ssh connections keep getting disconnected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ?

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Issue

  • Why my live ssh connections keep getting disconnected and generate below errors :-
Dec 23 08:17:10 tkla2p0516 boks_sshd[17507]: channel_by_id: 0: bad id: channel free
Dec 23 08:17:10 tkla2p0516 boks_sshd[17507]: Disconnecting: Received data for nonexistent channel 0.
  • Why am I frequently getting disconnected while using ssh ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • ssh
  • boks_sshd

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