Re: Ethernet not so good.

[Lon Shapiro <lshapiro@sun.iwu.edu>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tony Mantler wrote:
> If the MacOS driver is doing some unknown sillywalk to tell the card to
> re-get a corrupted frame that the linux driver doesn't know how to do, then
> in theory the linux driver will end up with mysteriously
> corrupted/vanishing network packets, which can result in stalled
> connections and the like while the packet times out and retransmits, while
> the MacOS side will show no symptoms.

Ah, very good point -- I'll try a short, twist cable to another box first
- failing that I bring it to another network, as you correctly suggest. 

Thank you!

Lon