[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[Hans Kruse]

But a windows file transfer (over TCP or any other transport), does use 
SMB/CIFS/RPC, it is always part of the stack.  (Unless you mean that you 
are transfering via FTP?).

--On Thursday, April 03, 2003 09:43 -0800 Cannara <cannara at attglobal.net> 
wrote:

> Jonathan, no, I'm not referring to what you term RPC/CIFS.  That behavior
> would clearly be inefficient whatever the transport.  I'm referrring to an
> ordinary file transfer, say from an NT server to a workstation, where
> TCP/IP is the installed stack.  This has been a common config ever since
> Microsoft began shipping TCP/IP.  The same behavior can be seen with
> other NOS transactions, such as large SQL exchanges.  On NFS, you must
> have misinterpreted what I meant -- NFS uses block exchanges as does SMB.
> Both can also, of course, have simple, 2-pkt exchanges.
>



Hans Kruse, Associate Professor
J. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management
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