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Need brief definition of Binding

Binding: as in "to tie together, to bind". Look it up in the dictionary. Not a bad place to start usually. Man am I tired. 🙂

I am assuming you are talking about protocols right? Well, with windows 2000 you have a binding order, or kind of a default protocol order. If your computer can't communicate with one protocol it will roll down to the next on your list and so on until you run out of protocols. When you talk about binding it can also mean more than one NIC. For example you could decide that you want to use netbeui for your internal network and TCP/IP for your external connection. You would bind netbeui to the internal NIC and bind TCP/IP to the external connection. Your computer would do any translating for traffic that had to leave your network and hit the net over the TCP/IP connection. This was kind of a poor example but you get the idea.
 
A couple more points. Binding is merely linking the NIC DRIVER with the PROTOCOL. So, it is essentially "associating" a protocol with the NIC. You can have two NIC for instance, but with two different protocols boud/binded to them.

Also, binding order can be very important. Let's say I have TCP/IP and IPX/SPX bound to my NIC card. However, I use TCP/IP more often then IPX/SPX (because it sucks), I would want the bind for TCP/IP to be ABOVE that of IPX/SPX. That way, the computer looks at TCP/IP first, and hence, increases the speed of the network.

Also, overclocking is something Bill Gates highly recommends for computers. 😛
 
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