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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Inquiry about broadcasting an address on a HP9000/320 (6.2 HP-UX)
Summary: Broadcast babeling
Message-ID: <620@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 21:49:03 GMT
References: <1070@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <4310077@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <4310077@hpindda.HP.COM>, dfc@hpindda.HP.COM (Don Coolidge) writes:
> Administrators of large LANs might want to keep rwhod generally inactive,
> anyway (on all machines, not only on HP systems) - large numbers of broadcasts
> (one/node/3 minutes) unnecessarily eat up a lot of LAN and machine bandwidth
> on LANs with lots of nodes.

You haven't seen network overload until you coexist with a VMS/VAX cluster!
The poor things constantly chatter amongst themselves.  For a short time
the VAXen herd were down today, and BOY did my HP-UX cluster speed up! :-)

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