Comments within and below. > sort of continuing, although on an IPX track > > was reading Radia Perlman's book the other day, and she mentions that > SPX > has a window size of 1. Now, I seem to remember from my DOS/Win3.11 > days > that there was some kind of SPX burst facility available (with addition > TSR > drivers). Are you referring to packet burst? In essence, this is what you described(watch wrap): http://support.novell.com/cgi- bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2947728.htm It was my understanding that many folks wanted to disable this capability and the article makes mention of this in a note on the bottom: "Note: Customers have reported that the MS Client for NetWare may cause high utilization on NetWare servers.. Disabling the Packet Burst functionality of the MS Client resolves the high utilization problem. According to one customer, the following registry edit disables Packet Burst on the MS Client:" Still, the intent was good. Many folks also associate sliding windows with SPX. Technically, that is not correct. True windowing did not really happen until SPX II, which also facilitated orderly closure of the connection (if requested). Wasn't really au-fait with networking back int those days, > but > would I be right in assuming that this adds some kind of sliding window > functionality to SPX? SPX II to be more precise. In a way, one can regard packet burst as a windowing mechanism, but it was not as refined as SPX II (IMHO). The real issue is why Novell missed the boat on IP. Too little, too late. I am a big fan of Novell Netware. It is a rock solid NOS. Unfortunately market share typically dictates what will be used. The Beta vs. VHS wars are a prime example. Yes, I still have a working Betamax :-) v/r, Paul Werner ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=6954&t=6899 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
