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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
Date: 30 Jan 1995 06:25:30 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org's message of Wed, 18 Jan 1995 09:31:19 GMT
>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Janssen <rob@pe1chl.ampr.org> writes:
In article <D2LH48.3IF@pe1chl.ampr.org> rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) writes:
Rob> In <D2KG6E.CMp@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert
Rob> <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
Rob> Please explain. How is IPX worse in routability than IP?
Rob> Because of those nice 32-bit network numbers, so that you
Rob> don't have to use cramped subnetting schemes? Are you
Rob> referring to the timing problems in NCP? Do you think these
Rob> are a design issue? (I think they are an implementation
Rob> issue)
I don't think that the routability is the problem. From what I
understand Novell tries to discover network services rather than
using "well known" port numbers which means that you have a lot of
network traffic that is going around just maintaining the list of
services available. This can cause real problems over a WAN where
your inter-site bandwidth may be limited.
--
Brett Lymn