On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:18:30 -0700 
 Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:

 > when i worked at digital, the deqna lockup problem was well known, and the
 > following trivial program was run out of every machine's /etc/rc.local using
 > something like
 > 
 > 	deqnad -h `hostname`

Couldn't the driver handle this by setting up a timeout to occur every N
seconds to transmit a junk packet to Ethernet broadcast, or something?  Isn't
there a link-level echo request for Ethernet?

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