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Problem with file copy using Solarinds SFTP & SCP Server

I recently received some new ISR4331/K9 Cisco routers.  While trying to copy newer IOS code to these devices I experience a copy failure. 

%error reading scp:......transfer aborted

Has anyone else experienced this?  I can complete the copy using FTP.  Also Cisco TAC advised that they completed using another SCP server (not a SolarWinds product).

THoughts or ideas?

  • We have been experiencing this for some time as well.  No solutions.

  • I have the same issue, it stops the service on my windows 7 32 bit VM.

    I did wireshark  and the transfer starts off rather quick and then the TCP window updates start happening. the  transfers slows to a crawl and then the SCP server resets the TCP connection to the router  for some reason.

    I am not forcing any modulus ( though I created a key with 4096 )  and even replicated in a lab environment.

    The SCP server is from 2013 and i don't see any update on this forum or others this has ever been resolved.

  • Has anyone found a solution to this problem?  Cisco seems to be using larger file sizes these days and my SFTP server is producing the same error.

  • I was having a similar problem managing an ISR4321 that is connected through a VPN tunnel.  I was getting a different error "invalid argument" but that could be differences in IOS versions.

    After checking the basics on the Orion SCP/SFTP server:

    1. Service is running.
    2. Firewall rule enabled.
    3. Authentication configured or disabled.

    I had to configure the source-interface on my router so it would source traffic from a tunneled interface.

    conf t
    ip ssh source-interface Loopback0
    end

    Then I was able to SCP from the router back to the server.