On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Chuck Larrieu wrote:
> 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?"
That and that other gizmo they called "large IPX", yes. And "Did you run
bindfix?"...
Boy, am I glad I don't do Netware servers anymore... :-)
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> ElephantChild
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 6:47 PM
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> 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.
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