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Packet Burst
The following is a brief description of the new Packet Burst
technology from Novell. This technology is to provide a mechanism
for transferring multiple packets across the internet.
Packet Burst Technology
Packet Burst is designed to transmit multipacket messages over the
internet. Packet burst requires client and server software to
operate. The client piece is in the shell. The server piece is in
the NetWare Loadable Module (NLM). BNETX.COM is the filename given
to the shell you would use to transmit multiple packets.
PBURST.NLM
is the NLM loaded on the file server.
The packet burst sends or receives the entire message as a
communications stream. Preliminary testing shows at least a 25%
increase in the speed of the message transmission, although a 4K to
5K memory hit is the result of using BNETX shell instead of the
conventional NETX shell.
In a packet burst transmission, the transmitter sends labeled
fragments of the message in the form of IPX packets to the
receiver.
The receiver sorts them as they arrive; they need not arrive in
sequence. When an End Of Message flag, (or after a timeout) is
received an acknowledgement is sent to the sender. This
acknowledgement includes a list of the message fragments the
receiver has not yet received.
When the transmitter receives the acknowledgement, it retransmits
the message fragments that the receiver claims are missing. The
process continues until the receiver acknowledges that the message
has been completely received.
Packet Burst works with NetWare 3.1 and higher.
Availability
The Packet Burst technology will be available First Quarter 1992.