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Jonathan Morton writes:

 > Nice.  Any chance of similar functionality finding its' way outside the
 > Tulip driver, eg. to 3c509 or via-rhine?  I'd find those useful, since one
 > or two of my Macs appear to be capable of generating pseudo-DoS levels of
 > traffic under certain circumstances which totally lock a 486 (for the
 > duration) and heavily load a P166 - even though said Macs "only" have
 > 10baseT Ethernet.

 I'm not the one to tell. :-) 

 First its kind of experimental. Jamal has talked about putting together 
 a proposal for enhancing RX-process for inclusion in the 2.5 kernels. 
 There is meeting soon for this.


 But why not experiment a bit?

 Cheers.

						--ro
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