Regression: ssh results in broken pipe upon connecting in Vmware Workstation pro

[me_tomas]

Environment: Fedora 28 as VM in VMware Workstation Pro 14

After a recent upgrade of openssh to version 7.8 ssh connections are not longer working as expected. This does not happen with a native Fedora instance.

    packet_write_wait: Connection to XXXX port 22: Broken pipe

The cause for this seems to come from a change introduced in openssh 7.8 listed under potentially incompatible changes: (from OpenSSH 7.8 released [LWN.net] )

* ssh(1)/sshd(8): the default IPQoS used by ssh/sshd has changed.

   They will now use DSCP AF21 for interactive traffic and CS1 for

   bulk.  For a detailed rationale, please see the commit message:

   https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh...

References:

Bug 1624437 – 7.8p1-1.fc28 breaks ssh connections to other systems when client is running on VMware ...

For me, this happens both in NAT and bridged mode.

Please fix this issue.

[yanw]

We have observed the issue for NAT mode, are you sure your openssh 7.8 has the same issue for bridge mode?

[me_tomas]

I had to re-test in bridged mode. Indeed, it seems to be working correctly in bridged mode.

[Olaf_van_der_Sp]

What's the status of this bug?

[Sinorama]

Still need work around in sshd_config (IPQoS=lowdelay throughput) in WS pro 15.02 for nat port forward to openssh 7.9p1.

Definitely something wrong with VMware nat and openssh 7.9p1. When I test with another router, nat port forward works without change to sshd_config.

Is there a bug report opened?

[JuhaZ]

Just hit this issue and spend way too much time to track this down. VMware, please address this!

Quick workaround from command line is to use

ssh -o IPQoS=0x10 user@host

[DazzaFG]

Bump! this affects me too. I hope it will be fixed soon.

[lcarsos]

This is still an issue in the latest Fusion Pro (11.0.3 12992109) also. Very frustrating as I can't use the bridged networking workaround when on my work's VPN.

[lcarsos]

I believe this has been fixed in Fusion Pro 11.1.0 (13668589).