Rakesh Tiwari forced the electrons to say:
> I just wanted to know that if Linux was primarily a tcp/ip bvased
> network.
Linux is, as others have pointed out, an Operating System. And yes, it
supports computer networking, with support for TCP/IP.
> so suppose that there is a network with only linux machines then the
> communicating protocol is tcp/ip.
Yes. Usually.
> I ask this question cause one guy of NT fited at me as NT can run its
> network in many protocols .
Well, I don't see the crib here. At one time, NT will be running only one
protocol. If one NT machine is talking TCP/IP and another is talking netbeui,
then they still will not be able to communicate.
> If Linux can also do it then please let me know.
> I am waiting to "Bash#$" hime up.
Even though linux networks run in TCP/IP, it can understand other networking
protocols as well. TCP/IP is the leader among all these because it is simply
put, the most reliable networking protocol, and the one with maximum
functionality. IIRC, netbeui (I hope I got the spelling correct) can only
broadcast, there is no connection-orientedness in it, and it floods LANs with
unwanted packets (many people I know disable it from their Windows PCs and use
TCP/IP all the time - even for Linuxless Windows networking LANs).
Binand
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