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Re: Should new server be 802.2 or Ethernet II?

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From: Hansang Bae
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 00:00
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gary@scisysgw.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
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>central server (NW 3.11), we only use two frame types since it's all
>supposed to be NW 4.1 and TCP/IP. We figured it'd be less hassle to
>require all connections to the Corporate net use only the NW 4.x and
>TCP/IP standard frames, thus minimizing the workload on the Corporate
>support staff.
>It doesn't hurt anything to bind both 802.2 and 802.3 to the NIC, and
>can avoid a lot of headaches.

Unless you have to have a lot of servers using SAP for updates.  (And
haven't upgraded to NLSP).  If you have a world wide network (and still
not using NLSP), then binding ipx to two frame types can cause a
significant overhead for hte WAN links.

hsb
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From: hbae@primenet.com (Hansang Bae)
Subject: Re: Should new server be 802.2 or Ethernet II?
Date: 1996/08/12
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