RIP - chatty, noisy, sloppy routing. I hate it.
WinNT4 Servers - For some reason, they send out packets
to the name server they have listed as primary every couple
of minutes. Anyone know how to shut it off?
Netbui/Netbios - it sends a packet to the *.*.*.255 address
*very* frequently. Best thing to do is remove it. It's not
needed in most networks.
Customers can get pretty upset when their connection is up all the
time and they pay by the minute above a certain level (for us
is 180 channel hours per month). They usually stop screaming at me
when I do a ptrace on thier network and show them what the
problem was, and either tell them how to stop it or point them in
the right direction. Too bad no one knows how to shut off the
NT Server nameserver stuff. I've got one guy to fix it by running
named on a UNIX machine on his lan. Why's he running NT when he
has a UNIX machine? I don't know. I wouldn't, but he's not me ;-)
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Timothy A. Gregory
Northwest Link Network Administrator
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