rsync difficulties on oss.sgi.com

[Bernhard Erdmann <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I get I/O errors from rsync when using oss.sgi.com if the file 
considered is already there in the destination dir but some bytes in it 
are wrong:

IRIX 6.5.19:

[be@indigo-3 be]$ /usr/freeware/bin/rsync -a --progress -v 
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso 
/net/scratch
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (93 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at rsync.c(229)

RedHat Linux 7.0:

[be@james be]$ rsync -a --progress -v 
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso 
/net/scratch
receiving file list ... done
unexpected EOF in read_timeout
unexpected EOF in read_timeout

RedHat Linux 6.2:

[root@ente 8.0]# rsync -a --progress -v 
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso 
.
receiving file list ... done
unexpected EOF in read_timeout
unexpected EOF in read_timeout

No problem to get this file from fr.rpmfind.net:

[be@indigo-3 be]$ /usr/freeware/bin/rsync -a --progress -v 
rsync://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/SGILinux/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso 
/net/scratch
 Welcome to the RSync server for the Linux area on fr.rpmfind.net
 This server is located in France, use rpmfind.net instead if you
have a better bandwidth with the US.

Daniel.Veillard@xxxxxxx

receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso
  172949504  46%  451.60kB/s    0:07:14

Instead, oss.sgi.com has no problems if the file is missing in my home 
dir (it has to pull the whole file):

[be@indigo-3 be]$ /usr/freeware/bin/rsync -a --progress -v 
rsync://oss.sgi.com/xfsftp/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso 
.
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v4.iso
   86343680  23%   77.00kB/s    1:01:13