SuperQ;278862 Wrote: 
> If I remember correctly, this failure was caused by switch packet buffer
> memory corruption.  Switch would get a packet, check the CRC, store it
> in memory sans CRC, the bad ram in the switch would corrupt the
> packets, and then send the packet out with a new CRC. 
> 
> I think the CRC removal from the packet was due to the packets coming
> in with 802.1q vlan tags that needed to be removed, so the CRC had to
> be re-calculated anyway.


OK - but I refuse to become paranoid over the possibility that once
every ten years I might get a corrupt TCP packet to my SB :o).

I worry more about being hit by gamma rays or meteors (or bits of old
spacehips...actually that is a real possibility)


-- 
Phil Leigh

You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann
JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC
V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1
system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend
Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables
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