Re: Bug#343896: no longer works with HP iLO

[Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard@hp.com>]

Hello everyone,

I found your discussion while googling on the dispatch_protocol_error
message that I got while trying to contact my iLO card from ssh.  Seems
that you're having the same issue.

So I asked for help on our internal Newsgroup and someone (Dave Worthy,
all honours due) was aware of a workaround that might help you.

In order to get the ssh to work, one need to put the following in the
ssh local config file :

# cat ~/.ssh/config
ForwardAgent no

Now for some reason, I cannot get it to work unless I explicitely tell
ssh to use that file with the -F switch like this :

# ssh -F ~/.ssh/config -l ILOUSER {ILO Address}

So you might have ideas on why it behaves this way.  I did the test from
a Debian Sarge updated with the unstable openssh-client package from an
official repository.

Hope that it can help,

...Louis