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May 12, 2005
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The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Today I'm going to tell a story from 1996. Why? Because I can. One of the tests performed by Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) was the NCT packet stress test which had the nickname "Hell". The purpose of the test was to flood a network card with an insane number of packets, in order to see how it handled extreme conditions. It uncovered packe...

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