[Xitami] (no subject)

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 01:24 PM 8/13/2002 -0700, Gunnar Swan writeth:
>Sometimes TCP/IP crashes. I don't know if Xitami recovers from this.
>I reboot about every 3-7 days.

If your TCP/IP stack crashes, then your whole system will die (BSOD).
TCP/IP is generally implemented within a Virtual Device Driver (VxD) or
System Device Driver (SYS) and if it crashes, the whole thing goes with it
because drivers run in Ring 0 along with the OS.  Applications run at Ring
3.  If Microsoft bothered to do everything correctly, drivers would run at
most Ring 1.

If your stack is messed up, then it might be time to re-install Windows or,
this is a long-shot, get a different network card with better drivers (I
recommend a good PCI 3Com card).  Good drivers makes for a more stable OS.
A generic network card comes with, probably, sloppy/poorly written drivers
and will tend to not work well.

Hope this helps!


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
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