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From: raw@brahms.amd.com (Robert Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Very technical question about AMD Lance chip
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.011044.14823@amd.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 01:10:44 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices; Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <7541@star.cs.vu.nl> sater@cs.vu.nl (Staveren van Hans) writes:
>While testing out pretty high speed protocols on new hardware we noticed
>that packets were transmitted incorrectly(probably some bytes out of order).
>Our current theory is that setting the TDMD bit while the Lance is already
>transmitting causes some internal hiccups.
>

The LANCE's TDMD bit can be set at any time regardless
of what is happening on the network.  Setting TDMD
should not cause any transmission problems.

     Bob Williams
     Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA