According to Jason Thorpe:
>  > Why are these even needing to be settable things at all??????????????
> 
> There were some serious problems with the protocol engine in the esp
> driver that appeared in 1.2.  The version in -current is much better
> (Charles Hannum did a lot of work on the protocol engine to deal with
> some lossage he observed with the driver in the Alpha port).
> 

So I've got a couple of SPARCstations in use as "production" servers (which
are currently running 1.1, but will shortly be upgraded to 1.2). Would I be 
better off using the -current esp drivers? Is it possible to use them with an
otherwise stock 1.2 system?

	benji

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Benjamin R. Cline	Large Furry Mammal 	benji@haven.boston.ma.us
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