HexChat Win32/linux DCC transfers fail at 100%, normally on larger
4gb+ files
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machstem · 2018-04-26 15:35

About 3 months ago I was using HexChat win32 to get some files over
DCC.  The smaller 1-2gb files transferred fine, but then randomly I
noticed files showing as "Failed" even with the transfer completed at
100%.

I looked around online, found a couple cases of it on their github
page, moved over to the ubuntu/linux build and things seemed OK...

I tried to receive a 4.8gb and 6.2gb file recently using my ubuntu
build, and it failed the exact same way as with the win32 version.

As of today, April 26 2018, I still run into this issue and I am
unsure which IRC client I can use that has, a) a GUI, not just
term/cli, b) supports DCC

Any help or recommendations would be helpful.

Thank you!

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m1ss1ontomars2k4 · 2018-04-26 19:00

If its 4 GB+ files, are you trying to write them to a FAT32 drive?

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machstem · 2018-04-26 19:18

No, to a NTFS drive.

An ext4 drive on linux and I also tried a mapped nfs4 to my qnap
(which actually fails before 100% a lot of times)

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[deleted] · 2018-04-26 21:58

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machstem · 2018-04-26 23:21

The issues started on win32 and then carried into linux as well.

I'm just trying to figure out what blocks that final 100% completion
like that...

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[deleted] · 2018-04-27 00:20

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machstem · 2018-04-27 01:06

I run my system behind pfSense, and also run pfBlockerNG.

I'm not seeing anything in my firewall or any other states check that
tells me there should be an issue; and it REALLY bothers me that it
makes it to 100%, but it fails CRC check and it's normally off by
about 1-2MB

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machstem · 2018-04-27 01:55

I just tried with another filetype.

It seems limited to .tar files..

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KindOne · 2018-04-30 05:33

What hexchat version are you using?

Try asking in the HexChat channel? ```chat.freenode.net #hexchat```

On Windows I'd use mIRC for downloading, It can run in WINE but the
GUI can be a bit annoying and sluggish.

I know you don't want a cli, but you could use irssi for DCC while
using HexChat for everything else.

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hzftw · 2018-05-02 20:17

There was a problem with irc client time ago about sending/receiving
files larger than 4GB due to the overflow of the integer that
represent the filesize which is a 32bit unsigned but i think it has
been solved on all major clients