On 09/02/2013, at 20:42, Parv <parv_at_pair.com> wrote: >> "Contact your motherboard manufacturer" is much more time >> consuming than "Run sysctl... | grep foo | awk ..." to see if your >> system is affected. > > Gift^WStraight from horse's mouth ... > > http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html I've already read this. > http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod I'd really rather a test which reads the EEPROM and tells me if it's a problem rather than hang the interface on a machine :) In any case that isn't the point - this may be a "vendor issue" but it reflects poorly on Intel that they didn't take proper ownership of the issue. It would be far, far better for their image to say "some systems may have the fault, go to http://.... to find a way to test for your operating system". -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8CReceived on Sat Feb 09 2013 - 09:15:41 UTC
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