Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:58:36 -0600 (CST) | From | "Pat St. Jean" <> | Subject | Re: NETBEUI support? |
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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
-- Patrick St. Jean '97 XLH 883 psj@cgmlarson.com Programmer & Systems Administrator +1 713-977-4177 x115 Larson Software Technology http://www.cgmlarson.com
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