WindowsXP can down your cisco switch.

Robert Leonard plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:43:17 -0700


This one is not a hoax.

Be careful with this one, it will drop your network.

http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2706523,00.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18239.html

and a discussion at (with a few slightly irreverant comments)

http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y&a=tpc&s=50009562&f=4690928
36&m=1770922111


The fact that beta software has no business being on a production network
seems to have missed the folks at xerox.