On Sunday 28 December 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 28.12.2008, 14:12 +0000 schrieb Mick:
> > Can you explain why this seemingly random corruption occurs? > > Most likely a broken NIC or NIC-driver. I had this two times (once with > a rented root server). Problems occurred only when connection speed was > high. For further tests., try also using a slow connection (<1 mbit). > bandwidth limiting is possible on the command line with scp and rsync. Thanks Daniel, I think my gentoo NIC is OK (I haven't noticed such problems when I connect with my gentoo to other servers). Getting 1 Mbps upload at this time of my local ADSL availability remains wishful thinking. At best I see around 407 kbps average, and when throttled this drops to 150-200 kbps. What would be a good speed to limit uploading to, given that I would rather complete the upload sooner rather than later. > > Can I trust bzip2 and its CRC tests? > > I think you can, but _much_ better is using MD5 or SHAx checksums. I have tried both md5sum and sha1sum with similarly unreliable results. I'll try speed limiting next and see what gives. -- Regards, Mick
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