[c-nsp] SSH failing on multiple context ASA

[Peter Rathlev]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:35 +0000, Matthew Melbourne wrote:
> We're using a pairs of ASA5550s in a hosting environment to provide
> contexts to end-users. The ASAs are running 8.2(3)5 and it would
> appear that SSH periodically fails on some contexts. The temporary fix
> is to issue "no ssh <network> <mask> <interface>" then "ssh <network>
> <mask> <interface>" and SSH access comes back. In a failure scenario,
> port 22 still appears to be open.

Out of curiosity: How does it fail? Does it send you an SSH banner (e.g.
"SSH-1.99-Cisco-1.25") if you connect to port 22? Or is it stuck after
open, never sending a banner?

We're not using 8.x yet, and I haven't seen the symptom on 7.2.

-- 
Peter