Thus spake Jason A. Nunnelley
It would seem that admitting this (on 3COM's part) would be financially impossible. There would be an outcry for replacement cards, especially those who are under support and guaranteed contracts.
In MegaZone's absence, I'll point out that Livingston did exactly this...actually...they went one step farther. Livingston had been shipping modems saying they would be upgradeable to v.90 when v.90 was designed. They weren't. Livingston replaced any and all of the old modem cards free of charge with the new ones that were capable of v.90. 3Com doesn't even, apparently, have the willingness (almost said "guts") to replace cards when the *current* functionality is broken. This is, at least, borderline illegal. As another example of this, harken back to ye ol' days of NETServers and broken MPIP (many of you will remember all of this) and 3Com, to this day, refuses to make this situation right. Again...I truly believe its beaurocracy getting in the way here. The people that are in the position to make the decision to "do the right thing," are so *totally* insulated from the customers by layer upon layer of beaurocracy, that they don't even *realize* how their decisions for 3Com are royally screwing over their customer base...and may even be illegal! -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.