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Re: [News] [Rival] Service Pack 3 for Windows XP: More Harm Than Good

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Service Pack 3 for Windows XP: More Harm Than Good
  • From: RMS <rms@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:18:23 -0500
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Retard Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>
> Router crashes blamed on Windows XP SP3
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Been having problems with your broadband router rebooting unexpectedly?
> | Windows XP SP3 has been named as the culprit.
> `----
>
> http://apcmag.com/router_crashes_blamed_on_windows_xp_sp3.htm
>

"The company has produced firmware upgrades that solve the problem, which relate to a bug in Billion's code, not Microsoft's. It relates to the fact that Microsoft has started issuing "flag 43" as part of DHCP messages to the modem -- something that has been built into the DHCP specification for 11 years, but not actually used in Windows until XP SP 3."

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