Comment 43 for bug 60764

I get this problem when running rdiff-backup (which uses ssh) between two machines both running Debian Lenny, with kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 26 18:26:02 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux. The server machine has a Macronix ethernet device using the tulip driver. I also can solve the problem by doing ethtool -K eth0 rx off tx off although I don't know what that does and whether I should be worried about turning that off.

Anyway, whatever the larger issue is, it occurs on both Ubuntu and Debian.