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[Gunnar Swan]

Yes, this may be so.
I do on occasion have situations where TCP/IP communication dies ... for whatever reason.
System still lives though, sans any communication.

This happens on my Win98 machine (desktop). 
Instead of figuring out why, I reboot every now and then. 

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8/13/02 2:01:51 PM, "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight@shininglightpro.com> wrote:

>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
>Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow programmers"
>                  http://www.shininglightpro.com/
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