Netbeui and gigabit

[alent1234]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
With the popularity of home networks, one would think that if the protocol was so great and made filesharing work without any intervention that they would be promoting it for SOHO networks.

everyone wants to get on the internet and that requires TCP/IP. Why install two protocols when TCP/IP can handle everything and is routable? With TCP/IP you can share files across the internet. With netbui it's only on your local network. TCP/IP won the protocol wars not because of speed, but because it's openess, versatility and flexibility. You can use it for almost any task.

 

[Nothinman]

I understand the difference between NetBEUI and TCP/IP...

My point was that SMB browsing sucks hard, if NetBEUI makes it suck less and makes local filesharing easier, why wouldn't MS encourage it's use?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I understand the difference between NetBEUI and TCP/IP...

My point was that SMB browsing sucks hard, if NetBEUI makes it suck less and makes local filesharing easier, why wouldn't MS encourage it's use?

Mainly because from a scalability perspective the protocol just doesn't work. It is a LAN protocol that just isn't suited to modern internetworks.

 

[Nothinman]

But by 'modern networks' you must not mean SOHO networks since you keep recommending it for those.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
But by 'modern networks' you must not mean SOHO networks since you keep recommending it for those.

That's correct.

A SOHO imlementation is not an internetwork, much less a modern one.

 

[Nothinman]

Ah, you did say internetwork and not network, I read that wrong the first time.

 

[spidey07]

And now you probably understand where I'm coming from?

 

[Nothinman]

I know it's not routable so it won't work for corporate usage, but as you keep recommending it for home users you can't deny that it wouldn't be good to put it in an easier place for installation and maybe have it be installed by the home networking wizard.

 

[alent1234]

Microsoft isn't interested in the SOHO market anymore except selling Windows XP licenses on new PC's. Microsoft is in a fight for the enterprise software market.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, because MS only has one target market at a time...