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Ichnafi
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May 25, 2018

Why only two supported ciphers in ssh_config

Hello everyone, I recently tried to copy a file via scp from a BIG-IP and failed by "not matching ciphers". I had a look into it and stumbled upon the fact, that by default only aes128-cbc and aes2...
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Sunny_291145
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This is a Known Issue: bug id is 663508

 

SSH Connection issue from BIG-IP to backend servers

 

Solution

 

Modify SSH Client configuration

 

Open up the /config/ssh/ssh_config file and make the following change

 

Before: Ciphers aes128-cbc,aes256-cbc

 

After: Ciphers aes128-cbc,aes256-cbc,aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr

 

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Sunny_291145
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May 29, 2018

When I had an issue in Nov-2017 I opend up a case with F5 and they provided me this bug-ID.