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Subject: XNS broadcasts
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 18:13:05 EDT
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I recently monitored the broadcast traffic on the Campus ethernet
and broke it down by protocol (all figures approximate):
(I'm refering to a logical ethernet consisting of several physical
ethernets connected by DEC bridges).

protocol		packets/sec	# hosts
XNS			2.8		2
Internet (IP+ARP)	1.0		90
Dec protocols		<.1		30

Is it normal for two XNS hosts to generate so much broadcast traffic?
If so, what happens when you have 100 or more such hosts?