[X-HW] Re: guidelines for switching to OSX

[Ronald Chmara]

On Oct 26, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Michael Winter wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2004, at 3:14 AM, Bill Northcott wrote:
>> IPX and Appletalk are both horrid chatty protocols which get routed 
>> over large areas.

All protocols seem excessively "chatty" when poorly implemented. :-)

(Apple's various forms of networking got a bad rap because large 
networks weren't actually being segmented and routed properly, thus, 
for example, a single trip to the Chooser for any one machine on a 
network resulted in thousands and thousands of packets being 
returned.... for no good reason, in most cases).....

>>  Their days are really past.
>> IP does just fine.
> I know very little about the actual protocols, but I thought much of 
> this was fixed when Apple switched to Appletalk IP. Is that not the 
> case?

Apple's stuff got quieter, and switched and routed 10Mb/100Mb/1Gb 
networks gradually came into existence. If somebody is *still* 
complaining about it.... well, that's a bit like claiming that having 
hubcaps makes a car run slower. Sure, the extra weight is, indeed, 
extra weight that slows a car down... but is it worth looking at, or 
are there other factors that should be addressed?

-Bop