Bug#498141: general network corruption running linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:15:21AM -0400, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> I installed linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 on my etch system to try and help vet
> it a bit. I immediately had two problems that look network related. The
> first was that xterms I opened on another local machine were garbled so
> badly that I could not use them. The fonts were all garbled, the prompt
> was messed up, etc.
Please use a protocol which uses cryptographic checksums like ssh and
see if something pops up. As the packets go through the TCP checksum,
which is computed over the complete tcp header and text, is _not_
broken, which means that either a higher layer introduces the
corruption, which would show up on much more machines, or that the
devices uses checksum offloading which is broken.
> The second issue was that my IMAP connection to a local machine was also
> having serious corruption issues. It would show the headers, but when I
> went to look at the messages, everything would go blank. (This was in
> kmail.) Reverting back to 2.6.22-6~bpo40+2 made everything happy again.
> So I realize I'm assuming two things - 1) that the kernel was at fault - it
> was the only thing that changed, and 2) that it was the networking that was
> wonky, and not something else.
Can you please use wireshark and get a dump from both sides of such a
corrupted connection?
Bastian
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