From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 5 04:07:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01025 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 04:07:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-55.airnet.net [207.242.81.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01013 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 04:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01676; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 06:04:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36419458.EB13C43@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 06:04:41 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Seidmann CC: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX Routing References: <199811032339.PAA13534@abused.com> <3640049D.ABC8E3D6@simultan.ch> <3640A3B2.72268322@airnet.net> <364145A3.9F09D220@simultan.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Seidmann wrote: > TCP/IP over Ethernet packets are _always_ carried over ETHERNET_II > frames (aka blue book Ethernet). IPX packets, on the contrary, are > carried over Ethernet in up to three kinds of frames: ETHERNET_II, 802.3 > an so called 802.2. This is some kind of confusion Novell created. Note > that the different frame types don't exhibit any contriburtion to > fuctionality nor performance. Blue book Ethernet frames would have > sufficed. I was completely unaware of this fact. My home lan runs Ethernet_II for the Novell stuff (which stays turned off unless I need to play quake :-) whereas another lan in the house uses the Novell default of 802.3. Which is the longest or has the most carrying capacity? -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message