Corrupted MAC on input

[Darren Tucker]

Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> I started having the "Corrupted MAC on input" since a few days ago. I do not
> know what the cause is, but from what I've read in this thread, it could be an
> ssh problem.

It's most likely faulty hardware at some point, expecially if you've not 
made any changes.  Flaky RAM, faulty network cards, cables, buggy router 
firmware...  See:

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845

> I have not changed the configuration on my machine in any way. The only machine
> I have a problem with is a IRIX64 onyx 6.5 10151453 IP35

At least some revisions of IRIX appear to have a memory-trashing bug 
somewhere inside the getaddrinfo() family of functions.  That IRIX box 
wasn't patched recently, was it?

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585

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