At 10:35 PM 9/14/99 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> you can say that one nic that "holds up" in one OS will do so in
>> another...the only time a failure should ever occur is if there is a flaw
>> in the hardware which has no workaround, in which case the product most
>> likely isnt very popular unless its a very obscure flaw.
>
>You should try programming a few NIC chips. Many "bugs" in network drivers
>are failures to work around 'Im bored, lets do something silly' hardware
>bugs - often undocumented.
Thats right (I think I've programmed a few), but the difference is in the
driver...most nics dont make it to market if they are incapable of
reasonable stability. I have a dec card in my windows box and the driver
gets mucked up once a month (and I have to reload it)....its not the card,
its windows.
DB
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