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At some point hitherto, Peter R. Wood hath spake thusly:
> Greetings all,
> 
> SecureCRT 3.4 on Windows, and OpenSSH 2.9p1 on the Linux side.  I haven't
[SNIP]
> Could this be indicative of someone snooping my line, or possibly a hardware
> problem, or maybe I need to upgrade my SSH server?

You definitely need to upgrade your OpenSSH server:

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/261645
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/261406
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/261500
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268718
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269701

The version you have is definitely vulnerable to two out of four of
the vulnerabilities listed above, and probably the other two as well
(the first two links are both about the same problem).  Your SSH
server is a rootkit waiting to happen, if it hasn't already.  Which
might explain the behavior you're seeing.

You want to upgrade to at least 3.1p1, and probably should get the
latest if that isn't it.

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