[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless networking question

[Joe Hovel]

I did indeed have NetBeui running! I used to be unable to get my network
to browse without it. I have now uninstalled NetBeui and all machines
talk to each other now. Will do some more testing of wireless traffic
once all the machines are running properly again.
PS: the proxy is Win95b, the laptop Win98SE, the desktop WinXP pro and
the Pocket PC is Win PPC2002...

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Jason Brice
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 10:19 AM
> To: Chris Samuel; Joe Hovel
> Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless networking question
> 
> 
> Another possibility is that you have several protocols bound 
> to the NIC on your PC.
> 
> IP and IPX are protocols that include a logical addressing 
> layer allowing you to send packets to specific machines (this 
> is a good thing) NetBIOS or Netbeui are nasty protocols that 
> rely on broadcasting every packet to all machines (this is 
> generally a bad thing and could explain your AP traffic)
> 
> Earlier versions of Windows (95/98) like to bind these nasty 
> protocols to your NIC automatically. You could be running one 
> of these broadcast based protocols on your network and not be 
> aware of it.
> 
> Check your network settings and unbind these protocols if 
> they appear there.
> 
> of course you may not be using windows at all.. ?
> 
> ________________________
> jason brice
> senior network engineer
> kiandra system solutions
> level 9, 455 bourke st melbourne vic 3000
> (t) +61 3 9600 1639
> (f) +61 3 9600 1656


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