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From: stu@gtisqr.uucp (Stu Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Netbios packet driver help needed.
Summary: packet->netbios->ethernet != packet->ethernet ?
Keywords: packet ethernet netbios
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.011521.28348@gtisqr.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 90 01:15:21 GMT
References: <4988@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Global Tech International Inc.
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In article <4988@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> daniels@cat22.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>I have tried to use the nb.com packet driver to run over
>netbios.  The driver loads, but none of the packet driver
>software (nos, ncsa, pcroute ...) will work with it.

What are you trying to do with it?

I was under the impression that the netbios packet driver
allowed you to hide IP packets within netbios packets.  The
result would be you could send IP information to a gateway that
could strip off the netbios information and send the IP packet
out again possibly over tcp/ip on ethernet.

What it boils down to, is that you can't take a network card with
a netbios driver on it, put a packet driver on top of that, and
access the tcp/ip network. :-(.  

I say all of this with some degree of caution, since I am by no
means an expert in PC networking, and this all fits with what I
found when I tried to solve the above problem on a network I was
installing.



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