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> >(Alex said...)
> >>What? Who uses this?
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> >You know, I really would like to see an answer to this. I wound up arguing
> with an instructor at a Pacific Bell class about bridging, shouting that
> people don't BRIDGE across WANs, they ROUTE. He insisted that lots of
> people do it. Him being the 20-year telco veteran, and me being the
> knucklehead dumb enough to take a frame relay (er, 'FastPacket (TM)')
> marketing class, I sat down and shut up.
>
> Actually, you'd be surprised how many people bridge across WAN links.
Then they complain because their network is slow.
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> I am also Microsoft Certified in TCP/IP and they RECOMMEND NetBEUI as
the protocol of choice on LANS, and if you run NetBEUI on your LAN and
add a remote office (also using NetBEUI), guess what...they bridge!
And hopefully you won't have someone on the network with vengence in mind
as well as a copy of winnuke... ;) I wish M$ certified their programs
also, so they wouldn't break under adverse conditions...
-- Aloha,Sherwood