SSH fails to connect to a Veritas Appliance "no matching key exchange method found".

Article: 100047586
Last Published: 2020-05-19
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Product(s): Appliances

Problem

After a Veritas Appliance upgrade, attempts to connect via SSH including with third party SSH clients (like PuTTY) fails. 

 

Error Message

Apr 28 08:34:01 myappliance1 sshd[122375]: Unable to negotiate with 192.168.2.17 port 65114: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-helman-group-14-sha1...

 

Cause

Older version of third party SSH client software. 

Solution

Upgrade the third party SSH client software.version to the latest. 

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