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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:23191 comp.os.386bsd.development:3123 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.provo.novell.com!park.uvsc.edu!news From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:45:45 GMT Message-ID: <D38EsG.644@park.uvsc.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> <BLYMN.95Jan30165530@mallee.awadi.com.au> Sender: news@park.uvsc.edu (System Account) Lines: 20 blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote: ] 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. Precisely. A "server" is advertised for each service offered by a file server. Double this for both SAP + NDIS running simultaneously. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.