"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I believe that burst is a special purpose hack with a few, very few,
> legitimate uses.  Unfortunately, the documentation fails to explain
> under what circumstances it might be legitimately used!

One set of circumstances was mentioned here once. It's possible for
ARP cache entries to sometimes expire between polls of a server on
the local network. In that case, some polls will and others will not
incur a delay while the MAC address is retrieved, increasing jitter.
Burst can alleviate that.

This is not a problem for most people.


> When in doubt, DON'T!!

Good advice.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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