> > 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
>
>
If so, then there are no data, only 1500 byte packets of, as you say
"control stuff". -- and whole companies have been formed to make smart
bridges to handle this "control stuff". Also, the Windoze machines
extract data from this "control stuff", emulate "folders" and create
files from it.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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