On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> > With all but the most advanced cards {3Com, Intel and the like}, there's
> > almost no feedback mechanism from the NIC to the OS - except to say "Yup,
> > I'm connected to the network". And even the advanced ones have to
> > physically disable the network to query the card, more often than not.
>
> You dont actaully have to ask the hub with a lot of 10/100 cards they have
> a link light on the back that lights up at 100Mbs and not at 10.
>
> Of course this might still be cheating but its a bit less of a cheat ;)
Still cheating, by Jean-Yves' definition - it's checking hardware, not
software. :-)
DaZZa
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