Anyone running Server on a Raspberry Pi 4?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2020-07-29 08:04, Liam Proven wrote:

> Me, personally, being a grumpy old git, I miss NetBEUI and IPX/SPX.
> They just worked and I never had to muck around with them. TCP/IP
> feels like a big step backwards, and IPv6 did not fix this at all.

Um.  No.  Even *emphatically* no.  I'm guessing you used NetBEUI and 
IPX/SPX, but perhaps didn't administer them -- especially in a large 
environment.  (And by "large environment," I mean "a few thousand 
machines."  Which, it goes without saying, pales in comparison to the 
'Net.)  Why do I come out so strongly with this opinion? Because there 
was no elegant mechanism to the routing!  EVERY router had to know about 
EVERY SINGLE HOST in order to maintain router maps.  Now imagine if 
every router -- your *home* router! -- had to know about every single 
host on the Internet -- all someodd billions of them.  And that's the 
*easy* part!  Each of them has to do announcements each time they hit 
the network: IPX was SAPpy as all Hell, and the chatter, itself, would 
bring any contemporary network to its knees.

Nutshell: there were advantages for SOHO in using IPX/SPX -- ease of 
setup, etc.  But it was completely infeasible to run at scale.

$.02,

-Ken