FTP / wget / browser download through M$ proxy server. 32 bit issue?

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:33 AM, <bruce.labitt at autoliv.com> wrote:

> Since my blade server supplier has insisted, I need to install a different
> distro on the head node.  (Support and all that...  The blade is not
> running yet, so we want to back off to a "known" distro and
> configuration.) Once I get everything going again I think I will reinstall
> Ubuntu 64 bit since it seems to support newer hardware and applications -
> at least for the ones that I need.  Anyways, I have been trying to
> download the CentOS5.2 DVD iso.  Everything I have tried seems to fail in
> a peculiar fashion.  I think it may be the MS proxy server.
>

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> If I download the file that I need (64 bit CentOS = ~4,600,000,000 bytes)
> which is slightly greater than 2^32 bytes the download fails.  It fails
> after downloading 306,020,501 bytes = ~ 292MB.  This happens if I use the
> browser, or if I use wget on linux.  For wget I connect thru my proxy
> which then connects to the MS proxy.  This is done thru ntlmaps.
>

Where I work, I often have corrupted or incomplete downloads through our
proxy.  We have websense filtering and I think the netscape proxy server.
In addition, the proxy is IMO underpowered for all the traffic going though
it.

I get better throughput going through an ssh tunnel to a squid proxy running
on my home server.

Our link to the corporate net is also overloaded by all the users at my
site.  *sigh*

So, I try to do my downloads of DVD/CD/etc at home to a USB drive and bring
them in to burn.  I have FiOS and can grab torrents at home,

This is what I do and it might not work for you.  It helps the users at work
by not loading up the pipe with a big download too.
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