Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:46:05 +0100 (EET) | From | "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.130UP and network connections |
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Paul Barton-Davis wrote: > Jim Gettys has already alerted us to various efforts being made to > track down why as many as 1 in 7000 packets on the net right now have > checksum errors. It could be a Linux problem, since Linux is > ubiquitous at ISP/web hosting sites, it could be the fault of some > particular router. Its not known why its happening right now. > Two nights ago, I had a checksum error storm while running fetchmail > to my ISP's POP3 server. Very strange. I still haven't checked with > them if they've changed routers or other h/w. I also had some TCP checksum errors storm. It always happened when I was fetching plain-text patches. After some diagnostics it appeared that the modem on the other side of the ppp link was vulnerable to the '+++' sequence.
Kris -- Krzysztof G. Baranowski - President of the Harmless Manyacs' Club "Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..." http://www.knm.org.pl/ <prezes@manjak.knm.org.pl>
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