A Potential Browser becomes a Backup Browser in one of three ways.
At the time that the Browse Service was created it may have been reasonable to be concerned about one computer bearing the brunt of all of the client requests , particularly on a LAN with a very large number of nodes. Today's computers are capable of handling the load and their own work without breaking a sweat. It would take an effort (a purposeful Denial of Service attack, for instance) to cause the LMB any real trouble. |