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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:23260 comp.os.386bsd.development:3134 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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Message-ID: <D3Ktz6.4t@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <D2x440.1J1@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D2z554.K4F@park.uvsc.edu> <D351G6.2qo@pe1chl.ampr.org> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 11:45:05 GMT Lines: 38 In article <D351G6.2qo@pe1chl.ampr.org> pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl writes: >In <D2z554.K4F@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: >>OK, neutrally speaking, what would you point to as the main >>advantage of IPX? >As others have also written in the meantime: large addressing space, >easy configuration, small size in memory. A pure minimalistic IP/UDP implementation is a similar sort of size (and similarly useful 8)). Large addressing space isn't so much the issue as easily autoconfigured clients. >>You want a technical attack on IPX? OK, how about the lack of >>packet checksums? How about the misimplementation of the 802.3 >>protocol encapsulation header? >Packet checksums are an option in IPX. >You are not forced to use 802.3 (we use Ethernet-II here and it works fine) IPX has some massive other problems. Packet signing for securit is a nice idea. Pity they don't apply it to routing. Instant denial of service attack. Still better than or equal to IP until IP-AH is done. >PC implementations of NFS (or SMB for that matter) are not better >than that. NFS is not an especially good protocol. NQNFS is rather cleverer about this. Amoeba bullet appears to be extremely clever about it. AFS seems to have the design right pity about the freeness. Even NFS however allows effective use of parallel requests unlike NCP seems too (from trying to decipher the protocol). Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`--[Anti Kibozing Signature]-'`----------------------------'' One two three: Kibo, Lawyer, Refugee :: Green card, Compaq come read me...