From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 13:10:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00151 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA00130 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id FAA05765; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 05:37:37 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604262007.FAA05765@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: TCP/IP questions (not necessarily FreeBSD) To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 05:37:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Christian" at Apr 26, 96 01:38:52 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christian stands accused of saying: > greatly appreciated. I would like to have some factual information > on this topic because there are these Microsoft-brainwashed weenies > here at my school that were claiming that NetBEUI was better than > TCP/IP because xxx, and because yyy. I want to be able to claim that > TCP/IP is better because xxx, and also because yyy. xxx and yyy > would of course be reasons provided by somebody on the list or from > some other source. *chuckle*. The correct answer here is "go read a book on NetBEUI (if you can find one), and go read any of the dozens of books on TCP/IP and friends". Here's one worth thinking about : you can't (usefully) route NetBEUI. (And before someone pops in and talks about bridging domains, I contend that's not routing. 8) > Christian Plazas -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[