From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 19 10:01:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA26719 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:01:44 -0800 Received: from SIRIUS.COM (earth.sirius.com [140.174.229.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA26707 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:01:42 -0800 Received: from slip208.sirius.com by SIRIUS.COM (NX5.67e/NX3.14M) id AA17322; Thu, 19 Jan 95 10:01:13 -0800 Message-Id: <9501191801.AA17322@SIRIUS.COM> X-Sender: rsoles@sirius.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:07:07 -0800 To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) From: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) Subject: Re: NETBEUI for FreeBSD? Any docs? Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Perhaps NetBEUI is smaller is total size, but it bites your low memory -- TCP/IP can be run on windows machines as VXD without impacting low memory. Also, if you've got 500 machines running b-mode NetBEUI (the most likely for people who know not what they're doing) you've got problems... At 09:10 AM 1/19/95 MST, Terry Lambert wrote: >> NetBEUI is a brain dead transport... and since you'd probably use >> b-mode (simplistic) it'd eat your bandwidth up with it's broadcasts >> quick... >> >> If you want to talk to Unix, use TCP/IP -- WFWG supports it, it's a >> 0 K foot print for conventional memory, it's free, and it works... > >And if you already have a network of 500 machines and 5 servers, all >using the NETBEUI transport, then you will probably want to put it on >your machine instead of reconfiguring the 500 clients and wasting yet >more of their limited 640k of memory (TCP/IP is fatter -- one thing >brain-dead buys you is skinny). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > > //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Roger L Soles // PO Box 280785 // San Francisco, CA 94124-0785