rsync Corrupted MAC on input.

[Peter Sabaini]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:30 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> I believe running the following command should 
> merge my home directory on the local machine (drew-s10)
> on to the remote system (test 172.24.1.104).
> 
> rsync -arLuvz /home/drew test:/home/drew
> 
> But it generates the following error.
> 
> Received disconnect from 172.24.1.104: 2: Corrupted MAC on input.

I've seen this happening with a specific router, a Linksys -- might be
hardware related, maybe hardware checksum offloading. What is your
network hardware?

> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken
> pipe (32)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (89 bytes received so far)
> [sender]
> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.5]
> drew at drew-s10:~/bin$ 
> 
> I believe the problem is that the local rsync process is sending
> the data too fast for the remote shell running the remote rsync.

No, ssh has flow control, this seems unlikely.

- peter.

> 
> Or, it could be something else entirely.
> 
> Assuming it is a flow control issue, what are the incantations
> for turning on flow control?
> 
> -- 
> Drew Einhorn
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