named pipes versus tcpip

Is using the named pipes protocol more/less secure and/or
slower than using tcpip to connect to SQL server?
"Colleen Rossman" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is using the named pipes protocol more/less secure and/or
> slower than using tcpip to connect to SQL server?
Named Pipes is equally secure (ie, vulerable to ethernet sniffing).
In two special cases Named Pipes is faster: on the same machine, and over
local-area networks using the NetBUI protocol. In other cases TCP/IP is
faster, since in those cases Named Pipes would be running _over_ TCP/IP.
Remember that all the client netlibs date from before TCP/IP took over the
world. Back then you would choose the netlib which matched your LAN's
network protocol. Well today every network runs on IP, so everyone uses the
TCP/IP netlib.
David