Re: NETBEUI support?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:54:20 +0000 (GMT)
> What NETBEUI does is take reasonable NETBIOS packets and encapsulates
> them inside the BROADCAST packets shown above. Now you get 1500-byte
> packets that are received by everybody on the LAN. Everybody gets
> interrupted and has to throw the stuff away. This is a real CPU-Cycle
> sink.
No - only datagram group target messages are sent broadcast and control
stuff. See the IBM networking technical reference
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