On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Addressing aside, there's another consideration - Windows hosts are > pretty chatty, and tend to emit a lot of broadcast packets and other > traffic while just sitting still.
If you use WINS and set the NetBIOS node type to P-node, you'll eliminate a good chunk of the broadcast traffic. Disable the computer browser service and you'll eliminate a lot of the background chatter. (Or just disable NetBIOS entirely, if you can.) That said, keeping broadcast domains to a manageable size is a good idea for many reasons. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
