While TCP/IP is designed to avoid data corruption - the packets do have
checksums, etc - but the problem is the software on top of the stack. I
have seen some software that will timeout and abort the transfer -
sometimes w/o telling you that it was only a partial read.... I had one
browser that would "silently" do this on occasion (and cache the
results!). For ftp - there is still the issue of text/binary mode - but
I think most software defaults to binary...
So - check the sizes of the transfered files. If they are too small -
you have a culprit...
Ezra
Kay Diederichs wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I thought TCP/IP is designed to avoid data corruption and have never
> experienced it, except with broken hardware.
>
> You could try my coot mirror, ftp://turn5.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/coot
> and see if this changes anything.
>
> HTH,
>
> Kay
>
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