OSX SSH to older Cisco devices
Cipher mismatch
SSH reports ‘no matching key exchange method’ to a cisco device Frequently when connecting to cisco devices with newer versions of osx, the following message stops you from connecting.
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.86.200 port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
To successfully connect to this device , you have to ensure that the cipher specification and Key exchange algo’s are specified on the command line as well as user@host :-
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