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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: PD NetBIOS on TCP/IP wanted
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Date: 10 Jul 89 13:53:11 GMT
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   Date: 7 Jul 89 09:38:16 GMT
   From: Rune Br{nnstr|m <mcvax!kth!sunic!diab!rb@uunet.uu.net>
   Organization: Diab Data AB, Taby, Sweden

   >From where can I get a public domain source for a
   RFC1001/2 compliant "NetBIOS on TCP/IP" implementation.

   A source targeted for a Unix box is preferred, but
   anything will go. 

I don't know of any that are public-domain, or even non-commercial freeware.
NETBIOS is a rather dirty protocol to work with, and academic developers
are typically satisfied with Telnet, FTP and perhaps remote printing.  Also,
if any other TCP/IP applications are to run while the NETBIOS is active on
a DOS machine, the TCP/IP has to be shareable by multiple different software
modules.  None of the p-d developers have done this yet, so they would have
a *lot* of work in front of them.

For Unix, I know Syntax, in Redmond, WA, has a SMB file-server application
which is available using RFC 1001/1002 as the transport layer.  Also, SCO's
Xenix-Net product can be configured to use RFC 1001/1002 transport from
a couple of vendors.

For DOS, you can get RFC 1001/1002 NETBIOSes from us (add-on to
PC/TCP), Excelan, Ungermann-Bass, CMC, 3Com (for the Bridge
68000-based smart card) and Interlan (I think they have one for their
NP600 smart board).  Note that ours is the only one which runs host-based
on dumb cards (and we take up a good deal of memory doing so).

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