I just had another attempt at this while running a fresh copy of 1.3.93
that was patched up cleanly from 1.3.52 using the patch-kernel script i.e.
no problems in my source tree and here's what happened (note that this is
with vanilla ftp and not ncftp this time) ...
ftp> bin
h200 Type set to I.
ftp> ash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> get patch-1.3.94.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for
/pub/Linux/kernel/linux/v1.3/patch-1.3.94.gz (741438 bytes).
####################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
226 Transfer complete.
741437 bytes received in 485 secs (1.5 Kbytes/sec)
ftp> bye
221-Goodbye, and thank you for using the FUNET archive.
221 You transferred 724 KBytes during this session.
[cschle@skybat cschle]$ gzip -d patch-1.3.94.gz
gzip: patch-1.3.94.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
[cschle@skybat cschle]$
Note that it is 1 byte short once again ... also note that there is
nothing wrong with my line as ifconfig says:
sl0 Link encap:VJ Serial Line IP
inet addr:10.0.2.15 P-t-P:192.96.90.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:296 Metric:1
RX packets:3731 errors:0 dropped:0 compressed:3710
TX packets:2566 errors:0 dropped:0 compressed:1683
Duh! I'm stumped. Funet is quite a way off from me btw., about 14 hops.
I'm going take a wild guess and say the word 'fragmentation' since I can't
think of anything else ... anyone want to comment on this idea or give me
ideas on how to debug this?
Further details on request.
--Craig