Re: e1000, sshd, and the infamous "Corrupted MAC on input"

[Ethan Weinstein <lists@stinkfoot.org>]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote:
...
>>Finally, I used a crossover cable between the two boxes, which resulted 
>>in the same error from sshd again.
> 
> 
> Well ssh isn't an especially good test as it's hard to debug.
> 
> Try transferring large compressed files via netcat and comparing the
> results. eg:
> 
> host1# nc -l -p 2000 > foo.bz2
> 
> host2# nc host1 2000 < foo.bz2
> 
> If the md5sums differ, follow up with a cmp -bl to see what changed.
> 
> Then we can look at the failure patterns and determine if there's some
> data or alignment dependence.
> 

Excellent tip, thanks.  I was able to reprodce the problem several times 
using this technique with nc, however the problem was intermittent (as 
nasty problems like this often are).  I used a 1.3G gzipped tarball and 
  experienced several botched transfers along with a few good ones.  To 
be fair, I also switched back to 100Fdx and repeated; I didn't get a 
single failure at this speed over 25 or so runs.

The results of two cmp's are here:

http://www.stinkfoot.org/e1000tests.out

What next?

-Ethan