Hi All,
Recently, we can no longer ssh into our ESXi 4.1 box. vSphere into it is OK and all the VMs are running fine.
Using putty to ssh into the ESXi 4.1 exits straight away with "Server unexpectedly closed network connection"
I have created a temporary symbolic link to dropbearmulti to use as an ssh client on the box itself via TSM and I am getting the same result.
The only error we get in /var/log/messages is:
dropbear[######]: premature exit: bad buf_getptr
This happened after adding ssh keys. These keys have since been removed to no effect.
We have tried to disable remote SSH and TSM and restarted management network and then enabled TSM and remote SSH and restarted the management network to no effect.
I've done some search but all the articles are talking about ESX 4.1 and to check the sshd_config file etc which does not exist in ESXi 4.1.
All help much appreciated,
Vlad