Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

5035.994 - 5062.007 Robert Mustacchi

So this information is all very critical for the NIC to work. But, you know, we didn't want to have just a one time factory programming process here, because What if we need to update it? What if something got wrong? How do we deal with it? So we end up using this feature of the NIC called manufacturing mode, which basically has the NIC boot out of an internal mask ROM. It doesn't enable Ethernet.