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Slow Performance Across Token Ring Source Routers with NetBEUI

Retired KB ArticleThis article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.
Article ID:147874
Last Review:November 15, 2006
Revision:1.1
This article was previously published under Q147874

SYMPTOMS

Network performance may be slow when you are using programs that repeatedly connect and disconnect from servers across a source routing bridge in a Token Ring environment.

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CAUSE

When you are using the NetBEUI protocol on a Token Ring network, a NameQuery packet is broadcast several times without the source routing field set. If there is no response to half the possible name query requests, remaining requests are resubmitted with the source routing field set. This behavior was designed to reduce network traffic on the LAN. If a program repeatedly establishes connections and disconnects from servers across a source routing bridge, network performance is greatly reduced.

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STATUS

This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows (http://www.microsoft.com/windows).

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows 95

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Keywords: 
kbnetwork kbprb KB147874

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