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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:52:03 +0100
From:      Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
To:        drais@wow.atlasta.net, john_wilson100@excite.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE machine unusable (was Re: Openssh)
Message-ID:  <E15x2ih-000OkT-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110251806040.150-100000@wow.atlasta.net>

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> I've seen this before, or something that sounds identical.  telnet did the
> same thing, and anything over a size i dont remember via http did it as
> well.

I've also seen this before - very recently. After a day and a half searching
it turned out to be a bad port on the ether switch (and not the port I was
connected too, one of the other ports affected the traffic). The switches
themselves were suffering from someone in the buoilding getting a NIMDA virus
which affected theswitches. Whether the two effects are related I dont know,
but they happened in the order virus->switches start failing->broken port.
Nimda can affect switches which have an IP address and a HTTP management
interface as it sends overly long requests,. some buffer overflows and things
start going pear shaped.

Id check your ether connecctivity very carefully.

-pcf.

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