eric@cssoff.syssup.tds.philips.nl (Eric van Rheenen) (07/13/90)
Hello tcpip experts, This is my second posting of this question, but I didn't get any response. This is probably caused by a problem we had discovered by the machine that supplies us with the news. I have a problem with a network containing SUN's, ICL's and Motorola Delta series 8000 computers using the tcpip protocol. We have discovered that the SUN machines are sending XID broadcasts in this tcpip environment. This resulted in a havy netload from the motorola machine, because the response was wrong. We have fixed this problem, it doesn't respond anymore to this braodcasts :-). The customer now wants the Motorola machine to respond to this XID broadcasts in a proper way (for him). In our opinion, the XID protocol and associated frames are not part of the tcp/ip protocol. They are part of the OSI LLC protocol. Also the MAC layer doesn't have an OSI stack to handle the messages for processing. Thus ignoring the broadcasts is the best solution. Question: - Does anybody know why SUN has implemented XID broadcasts in a tcpip environment. Eric van Rheenen Philips Informatie Systemen Nederland B.V. Tel : +31 (0)55 - 43 3372 | UUCP: uunet!hp4nl!philapd!cssnl!eric Fax : +31 (0)55 - 43 3487 | NET : eric@syssup.tds.philips.nl