Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 06:04:41 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Thomas Seidmann <tseidmann@simultan.ch> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX Routing Message-ID: <36419458.EB13C43@airnet.net> References: <199811032339.PAA13534@abused.com> <3640049D.ABC8E3D6@simultan.ch> <3640A3B2.72268322@airnet.net> <364145A3.9F09D220@simultan.ch>
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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 <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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