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Subject: Re: linux net killer or no idea? (fwd) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 03:17:20 -0800
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>I've just seen machines running linux/2.0.27, linux/2.1.24 and
>freebsd/3.0-current freeze after downloading 144540 bytes of this
>file:
>
>	ftp://ftp.troll.no/contrib/xppp1B-x86-ELF.tar.gz

   This is a not-too-uncommon problem in the Internet that is caused by a
faulty CSU/DSU or by a problem with the wire it is attached to. You'll find
that there is a specific bit pattern that one of the hops involved can't deal
with, and that bit pattern just happens to be present near offset 144540 in
the above file.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project