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From: wrd3156@fedeva.UUCP (Bill Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Can ethernet TCP/IP lock up?
Keywords: I don't know; someone says it can
Message-ID: <299@fedeva.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 21:06:42 GMT
Organization: Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN
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Some folks in my organization have been led to believe that a "screaming" 
modem/transceiver can lock up an ethernet by asserting carrier forever.
Supposedly token stuff like GM/MAP does not permit this.  I have little 
knowledge of lans and laning but I can see in the literature that etherneted
TCP/IP has about 99.999% of the non-IBM networking in the universe.  It just
doesn't seem prudent to buck such massive trends.

What do you think?
-- 
bill daniels
federal express, memphis, tn
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