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

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:16:37PM -0500, Ethan Weinstein wrote:
(...) 
> 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?

I would disable rx/tx checksums on the cards to ensure that's not a bug
in this part. Because one reason to see what you encounter would be that
some frames are corrupted at gigabit speed (possibly on one of the cards
themselves), and they don't correctly compute the checksum on the receive
side, or they ignore when it's bad.

IIRC, you can do this with ethtool :

  # ethtool -K rx off tx off

Willy