Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:36:43 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: NETBEUI support? |
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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 ***** FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.90 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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