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Subject: Re: Ethernet data corruption?
From: Kevin Breit <mrproper@ximian.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 13:57, Alan Cox wrote:
> At the physical layer ethernet has hardware checksumming, at the IP/TCP layer
> there is also checksum protection. That means that its almost certainly either
> 
> -	Problem hardware/driver
The hardware on this box _is_ quite poor.  I do have a LOT of problems
with Linux on here, so this could be it.

> -	Some kind of broken transparent proxy server between the two boxes
> 
> What you really want to try is to upload the same files via different
> machines to find out which end is the problem, or if it is perhaps the
> link between them - eg does it go away only if both boxes are on the same
> LAN.
I'll try this from my desktop box tomorrow.

Thanks a lot

Kevin Breit

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