If memory serves ( always a question in my case ) the facility was called Pburst, ( maybe pburst.nlm? ) and was one of those things that got blamed for a lot of problems on Novell servers. Almost the first words out of any NetWare engineer's mouth were "have you disabled packet burst?" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ElephantChild Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 6:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPX/SPX window? (was TCP Sliding Windows question) [7:6925] On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, andyh wrote: > 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). 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? The burst facility you're thinking of is probably the one used by NCP, which is Novell's notion of a client-to-server application-level protocol, and is to SPX what the original NFS was to TCP (ie, a distant relative). SPX-with-a-real-window was (IIRC) what SPX2 would have been had it not been stillborn. All of the above is from dim memories, and any relation to reality may or may not be a coincidence. -- "Someone approached me and asked me to teach a javascript course. I was about to decline, saying that my complete ignorance of the subject made me unsuitable, then I thought again, that maybe it doesn't, as driving people away from it is a desirable outcome." --Me Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=6928&t=6925 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
