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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!henrysa
- From: henrysa@microsoft.com (Henry Sanders)
- Subject: Re: NDIS/Netbios
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.173340.658@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:33:40 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan11.160412@roper.mc.ti.com> <1993Jan12.004621.20284@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan12.035023.15539@melb.bull.oz.au>
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- >Netbeui is a grungy little protocol stack which is a cut down and faster
- >version of NBP. Netbeui has nothing to do with TCP/IP at all. Netbios
- >over TCP/IP is covered by an RFC (number forgotten). Tricking netbios aware
- >programs is not the way I'd put it at all. Netbios offers a standard API
- >set which is protocol stack independent. There is no tricking involved at
- >all.
-
- Actually, Netbeui has nothing to do with NBP. Netbeui is a a pretty
- simple beast that uses LLC class 2 for reliable delivery, and layers
- another protocol on top of that to provide name resolution, confirmed
- data delivery, graceful close, etc. The NetBIOS for TCP RFCs are
- RFC1001/1002. There is also a spec. from TOP for doing NetBIOS on
- top of OSI. People might argue how protocol independent the NetBIOS
- API is - it seems like you always have to layer some convergence
- protocol on top of your favorite protocol to make NetBIOS work.
-
- >HP Lan Manager / X (and other vendor flavours) use the RFC Netbios which is
- >generally described as "netbios over TCP/IP". Microsoft's primary transport
- >protocol is now Netbeui. They supply TCP/IP with Lan manager (OS/2
- >versions) as a convenience, although you gotta pay
- >extra money for the useful utilities. You do get Ping though. Most
- >versions of Lan Man/X use TCP/IP because it's so much easier to port than
- >writing your own Unix based Netbeui stack. SCO did that though. Poor
- >buggers.
-
- I don't know that I would describe Netbeui as our 'primary transport
- protocol'. I don't think anybody here considers TCP/IP less important
- that Netbeui, and we are working hard to improve our TCP offerings.
-
- Henry Sanders
- henrysa@microsoft.com
-