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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NS DP8390 ethernet chip
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Date: 15 Feb 91 15:39:37 GMT
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I would have sent this privately, but I didn't feel any real optimism about
the return address given...

The worst problem that early DP8390 LAN chips had was a tendency to glitch
their byte-order control register, and change byte-orders in the middle of
a packet.  A bit destructive to one's data, that.  The C chips are better
than the A and B, but I think E or F is current these days.  You have to
get the old errata sheets for full details, since the newer ones only list
problems found since C or so.

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