<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 30/08/10 09:39, Paul Wayper wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4C7AEF9C.6010000@sgs.immi.gov.au" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">A hybrid long-term solution would be for Red Hat to provide a program that takes a torrent file and an existing ISO and checks the blocks in the ISO against the torrent file's block md5sums. It could then use segmented downloading to fetch only the blocks in which errors had been found. (This is a useful project for everyone - I wonder if it's already been done). </div> </blockquote> Just in case I'm not clear here I mean segmented HTTP/HTTPS downloading - i.e. proxy compatible, regular web requests. So the torrent file is only used as a reference and no bittorrent traffic is needed. Have fun, Paul <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Paul Wayper - Gateway Engineer - Unisys 02 6225 8057 - 0422 392 081 - Level 1, 9 Thynne St, Bruce</pre> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice: If you have received this email by mistake, please advise the sender and delete the message and attachments immediately. This email, including attachments, may contain confidential, sensitive, legally privileged and/or copyright information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. DIAC respects your privacy and has obligations under the Privacy Act 1988. The official departmental privacy policy can be viewed on the department's website at www.immi.gov.au. See: http://www.immi.gov.au/functional/privacy.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- </body> </html>