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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: IPX Atrocities?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.144724.19411@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Nov20.220009.3955@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:47:24 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Nov20.220009.3955@netcom.com> hallbc@netcom.com (Bradshaw C. Hall) writes:
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- |I am working on a project for NASA to identify the operational issues
- |of the IPX/SPX protocol. NASA wishes to remove IPX, and a number of
- |other protocols, from their WAN. This desire stems mainly from the negative
- |image most network engineers with NASA (and many other large organizations)
- |have of the IPX protocol.
-
- Let me guess--most of these "network engineers" like to attend ISO meetings
- at various sites around the world, right? OSI here we come, not matter how
- badly it doesn't work...
-
- |The following are a sample of the negative responses I have encountered
- |to the IPX potocol:
-
- I'll toss in a couple of opinions here; I can't address them all...
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- |4. Underscores in server names conflict with X.400 gateways
-
- This is a NOS issue, not a protocol issue. How a server is named doesn't
- have *anything* to do with the protocol. (Incidentally, we use underscores
- in email passing over TCP/IP through Unix systems, email gateways, and over
- the Internet with no problems.) Sounds more like X.400 is broken.
-
- |5. Small packet sizes are inefficient
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- Small packets are inefficient in TCP/IP and OSI too. Moreso in OSI, I think
- the headers are larger.
-
- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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