Two cents worth of IPX/SPX

Two cents worth of IPX/SPX

[norseman]

I've been reading the IPX/SPX incoming "conversations".

Something to keep as a background thought:
	I've been running packet passing in "real" MSDOS for over
a decade with virtually no problems. Any that do occur have been
tracked to other end - so far.
	Also - all attempts to run non-packet passing interfaces
in "real" MSDOS have lead to numerous and continuous problems.
	MSDOS is interrupt driven. Thus - less interrupts in the
chain the less chance MSDOS has to trip over itself.

I know this does not help directly in solving anything but it does 
lend support to why Stas Sergeev makes the comment:
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... (using IPX via the packet driver is
now faster than via native IPX support), ...
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to Reinhard Karcher.


Kind-of a case where Linux and MSDOS prefer packet passing, and
working with, rather than against, gets better results.


So much for my 2 cents worth.


Steve Turner
norseman@firstlight.net