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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NDIS - packet converter
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Date: 12 Sep 90 15:24:30 GMT
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Thanks for the test report - I'm glad to hear NCSA fixed things.

    I also observed the problem with a NDIS driver echoing back ARP
    broadcasts to the sender, but only with the Western Digital NDIS driver.
    Several 3COM drivers don't show that behaviour.

The InterLan NI5210 NDIS driver I use echoes broadcasts.  As I understand the
NDIS spec, drivers are required to echo both broadcasts and multicasts, so it
wouyld appear to be a bug in the 3Com drivers.
    
    Btw, when I recently looked into FTP Software's ftp-archive at
    vax.ftp.com, I found the NDIS-packet driver in pub/packet.driver.old,
    and not in pub/packet.driver.

This was a temporary condition.  It is fixed now.

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