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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
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In article <1991May28.230655.6545@hellgate.utah.edu> haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes:
>We have resources about as limited as anybody.  It takes less of them to 
>support five protocols on the wire than to support encapsulation.
Is this just a guess, or do you really know? I really know. We tried to
support multiple protocols in the beginning (back in 1984-86). It just 
didn't work for us. Perhaps you have such experiences to share?
>I would expect better performance in native mode, since there are that many
>fewer bytes of header to process.  Perhaps more important there is less 
>demand on our human resources since Novell RIP can do what it's designed to
>do, instead of forcing us to duplicate the same effort with static routes.
I assume you mean Novell static routes and not IP static routes. IP routing
protocols have had the ability to do things non-statically for a long time.
I would think the Novell tunning software will gain such capabilities as it
matures.
>>Appletalk has been doing well for a long time using tunneling.
>Could have fooled me- the problems with AppleTalk convinced us that was a
>bad approach.
Gee. There are an awful lot of Gator boxes and Fastpaths out there doing this.
Perhaps you just had a bad initial experience.
>>Even DECnet can be encapusulated.
>As DECnet IV sinks slowly in the west this gets less interesting.  DECnet V
>will be ISO, which should replace IP (they tell me)(I'm not holding my breath)
I seriously dount that DECNET Phase IV will sink very fast. I hope I am wrong,
but I wouldn't bet against it.



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