On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > The rule of thumb, as I've seen it stated in some olde Windows95 > documentation, is that following the election of the Local Master Browser, > one of the other Potential Browsers is selected to be a Backup Browser. > For every 32 nodes on the subnet (how is this determined) there is supposed > to be yet another Backup Browser.
This is correct. Certainly up to NT3.51 Microsoft maintained that NT did the same as WfW networking in respect of Backup Master Browser / Potential master browser behaviour. > That's what the docs say anyway. What I find annoying is that I cannot > get W/NT4 to select another node as a backup browser. This suggests that > the "real" formula is > > Backup Browser count = 0 + trunc( nodes / 32 ) No matter what, you must have at least one BMB. PS: I recall in the WfW resource kit reading that WfW elects a BMB for every 15 nodes. NT3.1 changed this to 1 in 32 as I recall. > > instead of > > Backup Browser count = 1 + trunc( nodes / 32 ) > > Thing is, I want to take a look at the protocol used to update the Backup > Browsers from the LMB's list. > > Any clues anyone? Don't know if my comments help. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
