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From: Kevin Breit <mrproper@ximian.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet data corruption?
Date: 28 Jan 2002 15:14:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012252482.6159.9.camel@kbreit.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16VHub-0001Zg-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16VHub-0001Zg-00@the-village.bc.nu>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-28 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-28 20:40 Ethernet data corruption? Kevin Breit
2002-01-28 19:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 21:14   ` Kevin Breit [this message]
2002-01-28 19:58 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-28 21:13   ` Kevin Breit
2002-01-28 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-28 21:17   ` Kevin Breit
2002-01-28 20:20     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <mailman.1012246740.9237.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-01-28 19:56 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-01-28 21:15   ` Kevin Breit
2002-01-29 16:53   ` Gunther Mayer

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