I am running a fresh installation of Slackware 9.0 in a Pentium 166, 32MB
RAM, 8GB box. I moved all of my web content and other files from another
Pentium 166 but with 64MB RAM that was running Slackware 8.0.

I have a Windows machine that I use as my real computer and I transfer all
of my web content to the linux server via SSH. When I tried sending some
files to the new Slackware 9.0 server everything was fine until the que got
to a large (65MB) file. The SSH client crashed after about 5 or 6 MB at
500-650 kBs. The error said

Server responded"Corrupted MAC on input"

A protocol error was detected. This usually indicates a bug in the SSH
application(either client or server).

I downloaded the newest version of SSH from SSH.com and got the exact same
error after uninstalling and reinstalling the new client.


Is my P 166/ 16MB RAM machine just too slow to handle the transfer or is
there a bug or some incompatability between my client and server?

Here are some details.

SSH Client
3.2.5(Build280) from SSH.com
non-commercial version w/o PKI and PKCS#11

SSH Server
OpenSSH_3.5p1

Files are large binaries 65MB+
Smaller binaries (<10MB) upload and download fine.

Thanks