From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: norseman Subject: Two cents worth of IPX/SPX Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:34:30 +0000 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FEC00A6.12B46172@firstlight.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org" 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: . . ... (using IPX via the packet driver is now faster than via native IPX support), ... . . 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