re[2]: [SLE] Linux/NetBEUI question
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 18:05, David Marti wrote:
To your friend: THIS IS THE MOMENT TO CHANGE TO TCP/IP. |-)
A friend of mine is taxing my Network knowledge these days. He has a Windows server and is trying out Linux.... as a Client on his NetBEUI network.
NetBEUI is from the "Windows For Workgroups" days. The current Microsoft recommendation for busy networks is "NetBIOS over tcp/ip". Even with NT 3.51 Microsoft recommended against using NetBEUI for busy networks. (Believe it or not, they were recommending IPX/SPX at that time.) I don't even know if Win2000 and WinXP support NetBEUI. As others have said, Samba supports "NetBIOS over tcp/ip". ===== FYI: NetBEUI is a broadcast protocol with no support for routers. It works fine for networks of 5 or less machines. IIRC, at around 20 machines, a 10 megabit network is roughly 50% saturated, just from all the brainless broadcast messages. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:37:23AM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I don't even know if Win2000 and WinXP support NetBEUI.
They still do have NetBEUI available, but you have to add it manually. TCP/IP (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) is the default. One of the big problems with NetBEUI is that it is not routable. You can't talk to a machine on another network through a router, though you can use a bridge to segment a NetBEUI network. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Linux soldat -- 8.0 SuSE panzer division Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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