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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
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References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> 	<D2JnoD.1DD@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2KG6E.CMp@park.uvsc.edu> 	<D2LH48.3IF@pe1chl.ampr.org> <BLYMN.95Jan30165530@mallee.awadi.com.au>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 22:41:59 GMT
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In <BLYMN.95Jan30165530@mallee.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:

>>>>>> "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.

Clever routers avoid that problem by using a different protocol between
the routers.  NLSP is the next generation protocol that does the same,
and Netware 4.x avoids this problem.

IP networks running RIP have the same difficulty.  Yet, this is not considered
a problem as alternatives are available in case your network is large and
suffers from it.  Same with IPX.

Rob
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