On 8/5/06, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>
> Do you have some cheap router/firewall in between them? One of the
> standard problems with torrent files is that occasionally a router will
> rewrite a chunk of bytes that it thinks is an IP address but is actually
> data. Very annoying.
It seems having a "cheap" router and switch may have been the problem.
The source server was outrunning the destination server (NAS). The
solution seemed to be a switch with flow control (TRENDnet TEG-S80TXE)
between the router and other LAN devices. Neither of my routers (Linksys
RV082 & Netgear FVS318) nor my switches (Linksys EZXS55W) used any kind
of flow control.
The TRENDnet switch also happens to be gigabit, as is the NAS Ethernet
port, and I used a CAT 6 cable, but I have no reason to think the
(potentially) higher speed connection had any effect. No other devices
are gigabit.
The problem with corrupt files are gone, although I still had a few
(eight total, actually) of these errors:
Reminds me of the olden days copying file systems from one disk drive
to another using "tar c" piped to "tar x". You had to run "tar c" in
the verbose mode "tar cv" to slow the process down so that it would
not over-run the receiving disk. Of course, this was with giant 2.5MB
drives on a 1MHz PDP-11/40.
carl
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