Subject: Re: What Apple does with GMAC
To: Louis Gerbarg <gerbal@cs.rpi.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/29/2001 22:01:30
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:07:46PM -0400, Louis Gerbarg wrote:
>
> Basicly, Apple has a timeout routine, and in the timeout routine they
> check if it is wedged and they restart. Below is an excerpt of the timeout
> routine. This is part of the AppleGMACEthernet project in the Darwin CVS
> repository. If you want more details about the symbolic constants and such
> you can look at that.

This really has nothing to do with the failure mode that's been
reported; it's pretty specific to the `missed packet' case, which is
actually not happening at all under NetBSD AFAICT.