Corrupted MAC on input

[Darren Tucker]

guyverdh at mchsi.com wrote:

> Are you by chance connecting via some kind of VPN software?
> I've seen VPN clients (and their servers) mung up MAC addresses by setting them 
> to all zeros for the VPN adapter.
> It may be a setting change on the server to allow pseudo-macs to be assigned.

The MAC the error message refers to stands for "Message Authentication 
Code" (think: checksum on steroids) not "Media Access Control" (eg the 
ethernet link-layer).

If the VPN software messes with the payload of the packets then it might 
cause that error, though.

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