A tip for ppl who download big iso files like fedora iso's

[Douglas Furlong]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:00 -0500, Federico Tello Gentile wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:21:01 +0800, Serge de Souza
> <serge at cs.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
> > VJ wrote:
> > > restarted bit-torrent again and automagically it re-downloaded the portion
> > > of the file that was corrupt. That too in just 3 minutes!!! 
> 
> Yes, bittorrent calculates md5 sums for every packet and I think that
> is a really good tip.

I believe the right terminology is "chunk".

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