Re: SSH and MAC address error

[Ben Chodoroff <bc@sdf.lonestar.org>]

After hearing this from you, I can say that it's related to the router.
I've dealt with 'em 3 times, and they all do the same "corrupted MAC on
input" deal.

The error message might be different depending on the SSH client.

Reason number 341 to use screen(1)

-ben

* Steven Núñez (nunez@helios.net) wrote:
> I've run into a strange problem with a particular OpenBSD 3.1 machine. For
> some reason, whenever I login to the machine and run a job that has a fair
> amount of output to the tty, for example refreshing the src tree or building
> a kernel, the session is disconnected with some sort of error.
> 
> This error used to say something along the lines of "corrupted MAC on
> input", or something similar. Now however, for reasons unknown, I simply get
> disconnected from the machine with:
> 
> Read from remote host : Connection reset by peer
> Connection to foo closed.
> 
> I've run a number of OpenBSD machine, in various parts of the globe and am
> always able to leave a ssh session open almost as long as the machine has
> uptime, but not this one. My thought is that it might be related to the
> "router", a Linksys Etherfast BEFR41.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced similar problems?
> 
> Regards,
>     - Steve Nunez
> 
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