Re: Data corruption when transfering across network?

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:10:15 -0400, ByTor wrote:

>I have 6 computers networked in my home, no domain just plain ole'
>sharing basically..........

>I'm using a 4-port router uplinked to a 8-port workstation.......

>Bottom line, no matter if they are connected to either devices one
>particular machine recieves tranfered data corrupted......It appears to
>only happen with larger files.......I've yet to actually isolate at what
>size the file is when it corrupts but I can say this, I transfer 350mb
>ea. avi files and all are corrupted on the recieving end, maybe a few
>blocks short to repair. Smaller files appear to be no problem.........A
>few smaller exe installs though were corrupted a few times but were
>easily repaired from the original.

I'd be thinking in terms of Ethernet rules, such as maximum cable
lengths or number of connections between systems, etc. A too-long
(either length, or hops) linkage might cause propagation delays to the
point that Ethernet collision detection may fail - i.e. the test for
this sees no collision, data transmit begins, but meantine something
else "too far away" has also started transmission.

If it were only .EXE that were affected, I'd suspect a generic code
infector such as CIH that's invalidating contents of self-extractors.



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