David Rusling writes:
> Actually, you have to turn alignment traps on for the networking layer
> to work.

Only if you have a PCI network card which can't do BM-DMA to non-word
aligned addresses or you run a protocol which isn't alignment-friendly
(eg, IPX, AX25)

Straight IP with a reasonable network card runs fine without the
alignment trap handler.
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