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by evanj 3782 days ago
It turns out that hardware can fail in weird ways. Its not common, but it appears that it is not uncommon that the memory in a network device can go bad. When this happens, lots of packets are corrupted. I have a description of how I think this happens: http://www.evanjones.ca/tcp-and-ethernet-checksums-fail.html