Advanced Server Overview and Installation

Implementing WINS Planning for WINS Server Implementation

Product Manual U7613-J-Z815-6-76

10.2.1 Planning for WINS Client Network Traffic

WINS clients generate the following types of network traffic:

● Name registration

● Name refresh

● Name release

● Name query

When a WINS-enabled client starts on the network, it sends a name registration request for

the computer name, user name, domain name, and any additional Microsoft network client

services running on the computer. In other words, when a WINS client starts on the network,

it generates a minimum of three name registration requests and three entries in the WINS

database.

Any server (either NT Server or Advanced Server for UNIX) usually registers more NetBIOS

names than other WINS-enabled clients. The name registration requests generated by a

server include the following:

● Server component

● Domain names

● Browser service name

● Additional network program and service names

10.2.1.1 WINS Client Traffic on Routed Networks

When planning for WINS client traffic on large routed networks, consider the effect of name

query, registration, and response traffic routed between subnets.

Name requests and responses that occur at the daily startup of computers must pass

through the traffic queues on the routers and may cause delays at peak times.