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SubjectRe: NETBEUI support?
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Pat St. Jean wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >What NETBEUI does is take reasonable NETBIOS packets and encapsulates
> >them inside the BROADCAST packets shown above. Now you get 1500-byte
> >packets that are received by everybody on the LAN. Everybody gets
> >interrupted and has to throw the stuff away. This is a real CPU-Cycle
> >sink.
>
> Heheh... don't I know it... It's easy to fix though... Put all the PCs
> on one side of a bridge-of-shame. I did it here with a recycled
> packard-hell 486. Works like a charm! Thanks Linux!
>
> Pat

Since we have fiber for a backbone, we had to buy a lot of smart bridges
to isolate the stuff. The Micro$worms insist upon "connectivity", you
know.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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