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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
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mcc@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett) writes:
>Having seen the effects of a "LAN meltdown", I am not terribly keen on having
>IPX packets let loose on the LAN backbone unless they are encapsulated. 

We've seen meltdowns due to TCP/IP speaking nodes too.  Either you've
never seen them (hard to believe unless you are only working on a very
small network), or you are trying to mislead by omission.

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