Re: Ethernet data corruption?

From: Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 14:56:17 EST


> The other night, my friend was sending me a video over the internet.
> We tried http, ftp, and other protocols, using different download
> applications. It seemed to be corrupt, the same way, everytime. It
> wouldn't work, and had a different md5sum than the "good" version on my
> friend's computer. Eventually we got it working.
>[...]

Two things are likely:

1. a firewall mangles your TCP streams

2. something is wrong between the driver and the NIC.

-- Pete
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