[parisc-linux] The problem on the PA8800 is all in the data-cache.

[James Bottomley]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:54 -0400, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> Actually on some occasion, the sshd would kill the incoming connection
> with "bad packet length" and "invalid hash packet" and all sorts of
> various nasty error messages. And we made sure that these messages
> were sent by the _server_, not the _client_...
> 
> My take is that we see that bug so much more on pa8800 because of its
> huge cache and thus because we hit cache much more often than on all
> other machines...
> 
> Still investigating this, i'm about to bring back online my rp3440 ;)

I can get a stable ssh connection to a pa8800 ... once established, I
don't ever see them close for MIC problems.

To get one going, you just start several remote ssh's at once, so this
would tend to indicate that it's some type of timing issue connected to
the fork.

James