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Dr. S.K. Singh, Ph.D.
Agril. Res. Service
Mathura, ICAR India
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Barry Treahy wrote:
> In a nutshell, I'm running 2.0.33 of Linux (just upgraded from 2.0.30 to
> see if the problem would go away and it didn't) on a Compaq 486 PC. For
> the past several months, I've been experiencing problems that I have
> been blaming on my HTTP server vendor to find out that it appears to be
> a Linux problem.
>
> I have identified a hand full of files including a copy of VMLINUZ,
> several .GIF files, etc. that when I try and FTP them from this PC, and
> in the case of the .GIF files, the HTTP server tries to send them, the
> first 1k to 2k of the file is damaged... Why do I say that, I run
> TCPDUMP capturing the packets and compare the contents of the packets to
> the real file... TCP seems to think that the file is ok, because no
> retransmissions occur but the ftp client hangs, the web browser hang,
> etc...
>
> I thought it might have been a kernel problem which is what prompted me
> to upgrade to 2.0.33. Now I have this problem server using the SW base
> 3.3, and other PC's running 2.0.33 which work with the the newer 3.4 SW
> base with the same .GIF files. Is it possible that there's a library
> that I have that's out of date and buggy that could be effecting both
> ftp and my HTTP server (which by the way is Roxen). I also know is not
> Roxen's fault because Apache does the exact same thing and the Apache
> logs show that the correct number of bytes have been send on the GET.
>
> Another strange aspect of this problem is that even though I cannot
> successfully download these files from the server, I can upload the same
> files to it and when I perform a comparisons, they are identical.
>
> I have very little hair left, so if ANY one can offer a suggestion,
> please do so...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Barry
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