Re: Jedi Packet Tricks

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> Just seeing the words "remote factory diagnostic mechanism" makes me
> cringe...

Yeah, and this is exactly why.

But, also,

   Because networking cards have direct access to the computer's memory,

that's an indication you're using a busted architecture - and this is
why.  Sane machines have an MMU between the bus and main memory.  The
VAX did this back in the '70s and '80s; the SPARC did it in at least
some of its incarnations.  Apparently computer designers are another
group that doesn't learn from history (not that that's a *surprise*,
exactly, but it's certainly disappointing).

More reasons - as if we needed them - to avoid running peecees.

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