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SubjectRe: NETBEUI support?
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

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