Test from my Linux box . . . .

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 Chad.LaFarge at ercgroup.com wrote:

> I know this sounds unnecessary, but I had trouble with my win98s
> getting on with TCP/IP and NetBEUI until I added IPX/SPX.  This should
> not be needed, but (oddly) it was suggested that my Linksys cards were
> "weird like that", and I "had to".  It makes -no- sense, because
> you're not actually using IPX/SPX in a workgroup, but it -did- fix my
> problems.  Go figure.

Well, there's no way that your Linksys cards can be "weird like that".
IPX/SPX is an abstraction in the _kernel_, not in the device driver, and
certainly not in the Ethernet card.  Surprisingly enough, Ethernet cards
speak... Ethernet... and don't know about IPX/SPX addresses nor IP
addresses.

Odds are that you are, unsurprisingly, discovering an unusual bug in
Windows.

Good luck,
Jeffrey.

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