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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:18:48 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New alpha 5.x bug
Message-ID:  <20031104231848.GA72581@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031104230040.GK42463@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <20031101103955.GA42891@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104031740.GA67484@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104124826.GH42463@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031104175552.GA70699@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104221251.GJ42463@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031104221826.GC15210@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031104230040.GK42463@cicely12.cicely.de>

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:00:40AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:

> > Hmmm.. the package builders are Miatas right?=20
> >=20
> > Are they using a PCI add-in ethernet card?
> >=20
> > I'm thinking of the Miata's rather fragile DMA stuff in the Pyxis
> > core logic chip.

I don't think the corruption happened during network transit.  For
example, they're pushed to the server via scp, so data corruption of
the ethernet packet would cause it to bounce off scp's integrity
protection.

Kris

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