Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:01:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Matthew G. Marsh" <> | Subject | Re: Networkhood file system. |
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > You know how Micro$oft gets this information? They steal it. They > > rob CPU time from everyone on the local network. These garbage > > machines trash the LAN with continuous "chatter", which turns into > > a nearly 100% load on the network when you have a room full of > > these abortions. No thanks. > > Wow, colorful. > > We could use wins, but it would need to be expanded to support more then > smb. We could also create our own, doing something like this:
You may want to check out how Novell is doing service location (historically - IPX SAP) under the TCP/IP only Netware 5.0. They are using an IETF Service Location Protocol RFC 2165 that is designed to do away with the ungodly broadcast chatter such as M$. That RFC is a very good read on how to provide service location (essentially what we are discussing) over TCP/IP without swamping the network. What would be ultra-groove would be a Linux SLP daemon _and_ a Linux WINS daemon that mutually conversed (perhaps using LDAP style databases) to offer a global network picture within the given realm of interest. Then you could (as partially implemented in Netware 5) have an LDAP server/daemon that could provide this information to clients who are unaware of SLP/WINS and vice versa. This one Linux boxen would be the NetGod of the neighborhood.
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