For some reason or another, the first time I ssh to a host, ssh will fail on the first two attempts then work on the third. This only happens the first time I ssh to a host. After a successful connection, I can ssh again to the host and it'll work first time every time. However, if it has been a long time since I ssh'd successfully to a host, I'll encounter two failures then success again. [david@ws5 david]$ cat /etc/issue Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i686 [david@ws5 david]$ rpm -q ssh ssh-1.2.27-5i [david@ws5 david]$ ssh 192.168.0.1 -l dltaylor read: Connection reset by peer [david@ws5 david]$ ssh 192.168.0.1 -l dltaylor Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer [david@ws5 david]$ ssh 192.168.0.1 -l dltaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: I have no such problems on debian machines with the exact same network configuration and the same version of ssh. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening? And, why it is only happening to RH6.1 machines? I really don't want to have to kludge this with an ssh wrapper in expect. So, any suggestions would be most appreciated. -- knet -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.