Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: NETBEUI support? | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:54:20 +0000 (GMT) |
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> 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.
No - only datagram group target messages are sent broadcast and control stuff. See the IBM networking technical reference
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