[ale] corrupted download of ubuntu-6.10 from gtlib.gatech.edu via Comcast

[Jerry Yu]

Were you referring to TCP retransmission by "wget should retry every packet
that fails"?

For troubleshooting (assume the problem persists and is life-and-death
situation at work), what kinda of tools should one use?   I'd have attempted
tcpdump or ethereal, if the size were more manageable.

On 10/12/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 20:48 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > should wget say something ?
>
> Theoretically no.  In fact wget should retry every packet that fails.
> HOWEVER, if the packet loss is more than just loss (i.e.: corruption)
> and wget (or your browser) doesn't realize it, then there is a
> possibility for corruption... thus the need for md5 signatures to
> validate what was downloaded.
>
> -Jim P.
>
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