[clamav-users] Partial downloads of updates

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 08/03/2018 02:42 PM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 
>> ... wireshark screenshot at http://darose.net/packets-dropped.png
>> which shows a download ... humming along nicely, when all of a
>> sudden it looks like the that remote host seems to jump way ahead in
>> the sequence numbering ...

> You might try a different model of router, I don't know it personally
> but on a quick search I do see the odd problem report.  I've had my
> own issues with Netgear kit, especially Gigabit switches which will
> suddenly go off the reservation and need to be rebooted.  It seems to
> be either just some examples of the same model, or the way that they
> get hammered, I never have got to the bottom of it.
> 
> In any event it doesn't look like a ClamAV problem, so we might be
> straying a  little off-topic for this list.
> 
> HTH


Thanks much for the suggestions.  I had thought this might be a ClamAV 
issue, since this was the only download (or Internet access in general, 
for that matter) that I seemed to be having a problem with.  (I recently 
tested downloading a several-hundred MB .iso with no issues.)

However, after researching this further, I think you're correct and it 
isn't a ClamAV issue.  Rather, it's an ipv6 issue, and ClamAV is the 
only ipv6 site that I access on a regular basis.

Long story short, I upgraded my router to dd-wrt over the weekend, and 
the issue now appears to be resolved.  (I.e., I can download freshclam 
updates reliably now, even from the ipv6 addresses.)

Thanks again for the help, and sorry for taking up list bandwidth.

DR