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From: backman@interlan.Interlan.COM (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: NetBIOS and PS/2
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.114102.1893@interlan.Interlan.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 90 11:41:02 GMT
References: <1191@media01.UUCP> <29900004@suna1> <1404@excelan.COM>
Reply-To: backman@interlan.interlan.com.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Organization: Racal InterLan, Inc., Boxborough, MA (1-800-LAN-TALK)
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>as far as we know through our IBM contacts,
>the netbios shipped with IBM EE 1.2 is not RFC spec 1001, 1002 compliant,
>which means that it can only talk to other IBM netbios machines..
>
>in other words, if you are looking for compatibility between different
>netbios vendors, look for a standard RFC compliant Netbios.. such as that 
>offered by Ungerman-Bass, FTP software, Novell's LAN WorkPlace, 3COM etc..
>

Apples & oranges here... what Manoj is referring to is that IBM does not use
a NETBIOS protocol designed to run over TCP.  However, IBM EE also does not
use TCP for its transport layer, instead it uses NETBEUI transports for
EE to EE links.

Your NETBIOS app will work with any NETBIOS that presents a standard (whatever
that means) interface.  However, your app will only communicate with other machines
that are running the same protocol stack under that NETBIOS interface.

Thus, a NETBIOS app running on IBM EE machines will only talk to other
NETBIOS pieces of that app if they are running the same protocol suite as
the firsat machine.  In real life this means that as Manoj indicates, if
you want inter-vendor interoperability, look out!



					Larry Backman
					backman@interlan.com
.