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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleTalkII
Message-ID: <1265@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 4 Dec 89 22:06:58 GMT
References: <936@mtk.UUCP> <10712@claris.com>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.protocols.appletalk clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel) writes:
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< While on the subject of AppleTalk Phase II, has anyone been doing any
< AppleTalk development on a Phase II network? The new drivers seem to be
< very sensitive to malformed packets and I managed to crash Apple's Internet
< router and other non-development people's Macs. [...]
< Has anyone else noticed this or am I'm too dangerous for the net?

Second.
It seems that Apple could use some lessons in robustness re System Software
in general (not only the router). Heck, on "real" OSes one can't (or at least
should not be able to) crash the system with any bad arguments to anything at
all unless these bad arguments are really clever (or even more stupid ;-) )...
-- 
Matthias Urlichs