[SLL] How to troubleshoot corrupted wget/apt-get/bittorrent file transfers?

[Kurt Buff]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 18:20, Phil Mocek <pmocek-sll at mocek.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:03:14PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
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> It looks roughly like this: Cisco 678, with an old Webramp
> something running Sonicwall SOHO firmware, both in a nest of power
> cables, then CAT5 cable from there running over doors, across
> floors, and down a handrail, around the corner, over some doors
> and through a couple closets to a desk where there's some no-name
> switch buried in a pile of network cables, power cables, and
> various other gear.  Not pretty.
>
> But these are TCP connections.  Isn't any junk on the wire
> supposed to be cleaned up at the transport layer?

Heh. Not necessarily, though in theory yes. If there's an issue in the
network, though, you'll likely see lots of retransmits and other
errors. If that looks nice and clean, then it's somewhere in the
hardware on the affected box.

>> But, one of the easiest things to try is a new NIC.
>
> Not if it involves a trip to the storage room to dig through "the
> archives" to find a NIC, it isn't.  I haven't used a standalone
> one since motherboards started coming with inbuilt NICs.

Bummer. Well, if all else fails, a trip to the mathom room might be in
your future.

Kurt