Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "Corrupted MAC on input" error

[David Kempe]

Walter Hop wrote:
> I grabbed a 500MB file and scp'ed it repeatedly across the network
> from the problem client to various hosts to see if I could recreate
> the ssh error outside of rdiff-backup. The error happened here as
> well, so it seems to be related to large streams of data, and the
> problem is not due to some input that rdiff-backup throws at ssh.

we have solved similar problems where we had no control over some of the 
lower layers, by implementing a openvpn tunnel. SSH over openvpn seems 
to improve in reliability a little. I know it sounds whack, but it works.

dave