OT: Can an old NIC driver affect TLS?

[Paul Halliday <paul.halliday () gmail com>]

I have been troubleshooting a weird latency issue between a web client
and a finance application.

The NIC driver was stamped 2006 and after an update the problem seems
to have disappeared. Does this make sense?

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