-=> Quoting Fred Springfield to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE>  -=> Quoting Fred Springfield to All <=-
 LE> 
 LE>  FS> Does anyone know if there are any y2k issues with the SIO drivers?
 LE> 
 LE> It's hard to see *how* serial drivers *could* have y2k issues. 
 LE> 
 LE> Think about it. When do they *ever* deal with the date or even the
 LE> time?
 FS> 
 FS> I don't know--which is why I am asking.

 FS> However, one might make the following observation;

 FS> All your internet stuff goes through the COM port, and all
 FS> the tcpip stuff requires handshaking and date/time
 FS> confirmation as part of the IP protocol.

 FS> And ask the following question;

 FS> Does the driver just pass all this stuff through without
 FS> reading it in any way, or does it read part of it for any
 FS> reason, and therefore be vulnerable to failure?

The SIO drivers and TCP/IP are *different layers* in the protocol
stack. As such, the SIO drivers would be badly broken if they treated
the TCP/IP packets as anything but a series of bytes to be transferred.

It's sort of like the way a normal phone line doesn't *care* what sort
of sounds it is carrying, voice or modem tones, it's all just varying
voltages to be carried.

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