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From: tksjmi@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (JoAnn Illuzzi)
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Subject: netbios over ip in ip-routed environment
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Date: 2 Jun 90 18:43:52 GMT
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 There has been discussion of netbios over ip on this list, we have
 been dealing with NBI and it's OfficeVantage LAN system, which
 apparently uses B-node netbios over ip for client/server access.

 An OfficeVantage client cannot access a server
 beyond one of our gateways.  NBI tells me this is because their
 B-node based netbios over ip uses an all-ones broadcast on the
 ethernet.  In our ip-routed tcpip network, an all-ones broadcast
 will not pass thru a router.  

 My questions to this list are - has anyone else tried running this
 software (NBI's Officevantage) in an ip routed environment?     
 Is NBI rfc1001 compliant using a general eth broadcast for 'b-node'
 netbios over ip?  Are there any netbios over ip implementations 
 that can exist in an ip routed setup?  By exist I mean provide
 client/server functionality thru an ip router.

 JoAnn