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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: 3C501, packet drivers, and bootp
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Date: 20 Feb 90 15:09:07 GMT
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You need to do special hacks on the 3C501 driver in order to allow it to
send a broadcast packet longer than X bytes without an error.  You see,
the card has only one packet buffer, and it sees this packet going out
that it wants to receive, and it gets unhappy....

I think these fixes might be deducible from the CMU PCIP 3C500 driver,
because people there first encounterd the problem.  I don't know if
they might also be found in the Harvard version.

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