Living with the Chaos protocol

[gadbois@MCC.COM (David Gadbois)]

    Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 10:18 CST
    From: delaney@xn.ll.mit.edu

    [...]

    Having half-answered your question, I have to ask why your corporate
    people are against CHOAS traffic? the questions is partially
    rhetorical.

    [...]

Some routing products can't handle CHAOS packets, or require expensive
firmware options in order to do so.  Also, the admin types may not want
to have to learn about and deal with a different protocol.  And some
network configurations that are reasonable for TCP/IP (like, say, a
bridging setup that introduces fairly high latencies) may give CHAOS
problems.


--David Gadbois