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- From: rfranken@cs.umr.edu (Richard Brett Frankenberger)
- Subject: Re: IPX and NetBios routing/bridging?
- References: <1iklr2INNrct@apache.dtcc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:54:56 GMT
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- In article <1iklr2INNrct@apache.dtcc.edu> bob@hobbes.dtcc.edu (Bob Rahe) writes:
- > Anyway, for the IPX stuff everything seems fine, the catch is that on
- >one of the file servers is a Racal-Interlan gateway. This allows PCs to
- >access TCP/IP thru a file server. The catch is that altho it uses the
- >Novell fileserver to store/load up the files to the pc for things like
- >telnet, ftp etc., the actual traffic between the telnet process on the
- >PC and the gateway software on the server is NetBios. This is where I
- >get lost, it appears that NetBios is only bridgeable. Is that correct?
- >If so, it would seem we either turn on bridging (yuck - how?) or we have
- >to interconnect the lans with bridges or hubs or something, we will not
- >be able to have different lans on different router interfaces.
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- NetBIOS is generally not considered to be a network protocol. It is more of an
- API - a set of software interrupts used by programs to communicate across a LAN.
-
- Several people make implementations of NetBIOS. IBM is one company that does.
- Their implementation uses the NetBEUI psuedo-protocol for communication across
- the LAN between PC's. You are correct that this protocol is NOT routable. You
- would need bridging.
-
- Novell also makes an implementation of NetBIOS. It uses IPX as the protocol
- for communication across the LAN between workstations. Since IPX is routable
- (and you are already routing IPX), if you used Novell's NetBIOS, you would not
- have to change anything on the routers.
-
- Note that to a program running on the PC, both IBM's and Novell's implementation
- are compatible. They provide the same API to the programs. On the network
- side, however, they are different, and if one machine is running Novell's
- NetBIOS and another is running IBM's, they will not be able to communicate.
-
- Novell's implementation is not a separate product. You should have gotten it
- with all the other workstation programs. It is NETBIOS.COM (or .EXE).
-
- - Brett (rfranken@cs.umr.edu)
-
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