harmless windows bashing
harmless windows bashing
Posted Sep 29, 2007 0:42 UTC (Sat) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: harmless windows bashing by ccyoung
Parent article: High-performance network programming, Part 1 (developerWorks)
NetBios does chatty broadcast peer detection. I'm unclear to what extent this is mitigated in the TCP encapsulation which is frequently used, but often the raw mode (netbeui) is enabled as well. I believe the TCP mode for some "applications" (read print and file sharing) still must broadcast at the tcp level (yes in netbios over tcp you can have broadcasts that are not broadcast and unicasts that are broadcast).
Essentially "here I am" is what you are seeing. Appletalk did much the same thing. Yeah it's a bad thing, it scales very badly with increased network bandwidth for starters.
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