Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:07:07 -0800 From: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NETBEUI for FreeBSD? Any docs? Message-ID: <9501191801.AA17322@SIRIUS.COM>
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Perhaps NetBEUI is smaller is total size, but it bites your low memory -- TCP/IP can be run on windows machines as VXD without impacting low memory. Also, if you've got 500 machines running b-mode NetBEUI (the most likely for people who know not what they're doing) you've got problems... At 09:10 AM 1/19/95 MST, Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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. > > //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Roger L Soles // PO Box 280785 // San Francisco, CA 94124-0785
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