 DanielPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-26
San Francisco, CA
| reply to MySpareBrain
Netbeui's issues... Netbeui is broadcast based, meaning that if you have a giant segmented network like on a University campus it basically ignores the switches and routers and just sprays all over every single machine connected to the LAN. This is a huge mess and causes problems for optimization. The idea of a routable protocol is to be able to limit how often one person's packets have to interfere with another segment.
Netbeui is the ultimate 'interferer' since it just goes everywhere and ignores segmentation.
It IS a great protocol for home LANs, but MS is trying to get rid of it because it is dated and 'chatty'. I am sure there are other reasons too, but those are a couple of them.
[text was edited by author 2001-11-19 14:52:37] |
