On 09/02/2013, at 20:42, Parv <p...@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".

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