XP NETBEUI Connections Limit?

[Frank Haber]

In the unusual circumstance where 8 of 11 peeer machines are WFWG 3.11 boxes
with NETBEUI only installed (and one 98SE, and one XP Pro SP2 machine (with
TCP, of course, and the XP unsupported NETBEUI))....

Is the ten-machine limit enforced? By the browsemaster? Remind me whether
there's a utility to quickly detect the current browsemaster over NETBIOS?

The eleventh machine seems always to knock another off Network
Neighborhood/Machines_near_me on 98 and XP. Everything remains accessible via
NET blahblah \\UNCNAME.

 

[Chuck]

In the unusual circumstance where 8 of 11 peeer machines are WFWG 3.11 boxes
with NETBEUI only installed (and one 98SE, and one XP Pro SP2 machine (with
TCP, of course, and the XP unsupported NETBEUI))....

Is the ten-machine limit enforced? By the browsemaster? Remind me whether
there's a utility to quickly detect the current browsemaster over NETBIOS?

The eleventh machine seems always to knock another off Network
Neighborhood/Machines_near_me on 98 and XP. Everything remains accessible via
NET blahblah \\UNCNAME.

Frank,

The limit is on the number of inbound connections, including all protocols and
transports. It's not limited to NetBEUI. Fortunately, almost all protocols and
transports used by a single computer count as only one connection.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Guest]

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818092

Regards,

TimH

 

[Frank Haber]

Thanks, everyone. I guess the "10-connection" limit would include obscure
things like parallel UDP pings/traceroutes, as well as the filesharing and
sploit stuff, right?

 

[Chuck]

Thanks, everyone. I guess the "10-connection" limit would include obscure
things like parallel UDP pings/traceroutes, as well as the filesharing and
sploit stuff, right?

Frank,

Whatever makes a connection. You have to read the article carefully, the clues
are in there. I don't think pings / traceroutes count as a connection.

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.