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# The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't ― Andreas Zwinkau

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## Summary

This article describes a bug hunt at AdGear Technologies Inc. when their ssh connections started failing. The author traced the problem back to packet corruption and eventually identified the specific hop causing the corruption. The issue was resolved by changing the outbound routes and replacing a faulty management module.

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