Re: Tarball error in ns-wireless snapshot

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Andree Jacobson wrote:

> Yes, it downloads correctly but you cannot unpack more than approx 11 Mb of
> it... I have fetched it in 4 different ways (fetch, wget, netscape and lynx) and
> I still can't unpack it.

If you're using a proxy cache for both ftp and http, it's possible
that that contains an incomplete copy as a result of the proxy's
download from berkeley being incomplete. A fast download is a dead
giveaway...

The normal snapshots under our mirror at:

ftp://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk/pub/Mirrors/mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/

are okay. Since we're mirroring ftp rather than http, we're not
mirroring:

http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/ns-src-wireless-ver.tar.gz
http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/ns-src-wireless-ver-old.tar.gz

and in any case
http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/
shows that these are dated 4th May (not 30th April) and are 15.3 and
15Mb respectively.

If Andree could grab a mirrored wireless version from our mirror, he
might find it easier to get... 

It might be an idea to move download problems to the top of:
http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-problems.html
btw, and mention and link to our mirror there too. If you're having
problems downloading from the US, the European mirror is a Good Bet
as a solution.

Cheers,

L.


> Here's the output:
> 
> andree@proj4 ~ >gunzip ns-src-wireless-ver.tar.gz 
> 
> gunzip: ns-src-wireless-ver.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
> Exit 1
> 
> So we need a new tarball to download, please!
> 
> /Andree
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, John Heidemann wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 05 May 1999 11:21:28 +0200, Andree Jacobson wrote: 
> > >
> > >The current 30/4 snapshot of the ns-src-wireless-ver.tar seems to be faulty...
> > >--invalid compressed data --format violated
> > >
> > >http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/ns-src-wireless-ver.tar.gz
> > >
> > >/Andree Jacobson
> > 
> > It downloads correctly for me.  Please see 
> > <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-problems.html>
> > for suggestions about download problems.
> > 
> >    -John Heidemann

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