The Old New Thing

The Microsoft corporate network: 1.7 times worse than hell

May 12, 2005 May 12, 2005 05/12/05

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 ...