Error 1156 on federated table

[Ruaraidh Hamilton]

Can anyone explain "Error Code: 1156. Got packets out of order" when querying a federated table? More details:

First on the remote server with an SSH connection:

/********************************************************/
CREATE TABLE `testremote`.`test` (
`c1` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

INSERT INTO `testremote`.`test` (`c1`) VALUES ('a');
/********************************************************/

Then on the local server:

/********************************************************/
CREATE TABLE `test`.`test` (
`c1` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
) engine=federated DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
CONNECTION='mysql://user:password@IP_address:port/testremote/test';

select c1 from test.test;
/********************************************************/

That final select generates the error.

I am using MySQL Workbench 5.2.39 CE. Variable version=5.5.28-log for the remote server, and 5.6.11-log for the local server. user is the "SSH Username", and IP_address:port is the SSH Hostname as shown in the "Connect to Database" window of MySQL Workbench