From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 19 08:16:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA24999 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 08:16:39 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24986 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 08:16:33 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA07240; Thu, 19 Jan 95 09:10:17 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501191610.AA07240@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: NETBEUI for FreeBSD? Any docs? To: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 9:10:17 MST Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9501190447.AA09530@SIRIUS.COM> from "Roger L Soles" at Jan 18, 95 08:53:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NetBEUI is a brain dead transport... and since you'd probably use > b-mode (simplistic) it'd eat your bandwidth up with it's broadcasts > quick... > > If you want to talk to Unix, use TCP/IP -- WFWG supports it, it's a > 0 K foot print for conventional memory, it's free, and it works... And if you already have a network of 500 machines and 5 servers, all using the NETBEUI transport, then you will probably want to put it on your machine instead of reconfiguring the 500 clients and wasting yet more of their limited 640k of memory (TCP/IP is fatter -- one thing brain-dead buys you is skinny). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.