On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:47:54AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> I've updated one of my local machines to 4.99.59 (after Geoff Wing came
> up with a fix for the aiboost problem), and now I'm seeing some strange
> network lossage.
>
> An ssh session from another machine (running 4.99.55) just randomly
> drops with an error similar to
>
> Received disconnect from 66.92.186.135: 2: Bad packet length 3493832540.
>
> And overnight backups (using amanda) also failed with a "Broken pipe"
> error.
>
> Anyone else seeing such strange behavior?
Yes, I was seeing the exact same behaviour. See my message from a few
hours ago "Random network lossage on nfe(4)".
Are you also using nfe? Or an nforce based mobo? Even regular PCI
network cards I added to that machine didn't work anymore, but that
was already so with 4.0. It may have been the case that the mobo was
fried, since I moved the cards to a new machine with another chipset
and it works just perfect.
Regards,
Peter
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