The next vendor to kill off the OpenSSH roaming bug announced in January is Juniper Networks. The bug’s best bit, as we noted at the time, was that the roaming feature had been added as an experiment back in 2010 (in version 5.4), and was undocumented. The idea of roaming is to maintain an OpenSSH session if there was a connection interruption – which happens quite often in the mobile world, when for example a client moves between cell towers / base stations.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
