Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dennis Glatting 
had to walk into mine and say:
 
> In reading your message I felt compelled to ask you a question. Are
> you using gb end-to-end? That probably isn't a good idea because in
> TCP the sequence numbers can wrap within timeout periods and the data
> stream become undetectably (from a TCP perspective) corrupt.

You didn't read what I said. I don't have a gigabit ethernet switch.
I only have cards. Therefore the *only* way I can test the operation
of the driver and adapters is to connect two machines with gigabit
cards back to back with a patch cable. This automatically implies 'using 
gb end-to-end.'

As for corruption due to TCP sequence number wrapping, I don't know
what to tell you. I never noticed such behavior in my tests, but that's
why I'm asking for feedback from other people.

-Bill

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-Bill Paul            (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu
Work:         wp...@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research
Home:  wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City
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