Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 03:17:20 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Richard Jones <richard@a42.deep-thought.org> Subject: Re: linux net killer or no idea? (fwd) Message-ID: <199702041117.DAA00348@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:10:20 %2B1100." <19970204101020.12479.qmail@suburbia.net>
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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
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