Tim Woodall wrote:
>On 23 May 2002, alex wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm looking for people who have download problems where they can't
>>download certain files or from certain sites. I've never been able to
>>reproduce the problem and it does seem apparent that different people
>>running the same code can get different results.
>>
>>My theory/hunch/wild guess is based on the observation that some people
>>have noted CRC errors whilst these downloads are happening. We really
>>shouldn't see CRC errors that often (especially at the rates most people
>>are running at) so if your having problems could you try applying this
>>patch:
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>Just a note of warning. Alex's patch is _likely_ to end up with a coredump
>if the CRC errors are genuine. (I would expect to see a coredump within
>about 200-500 bad packets)
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Yes. But only when I have -v 2 enabled... Otherwise, I just get the same
as before...
>I can guess what Alex is thinking but I suspect dodgy USB hardware. I can
>now reliably trigger my problem after an investigation of what it was that
>was the problem. On my machine it is after a number of packets that contain
>only 0xff data - note that not every byte contains 0xff because the ATM
>framing data is still there. I suspect similar bit patterns are tripping up
>other peoples hardware as well.
>
Umm... Your problem was different. My problem is a stalled transfer.
Yours was I believe a completely broken ppp connection.
As the files I can't download are compressed, I don't believe there will
be large areads of 0xff data in them, else it would be compressed out...
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