Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!cgch!whwb From: whwb@ciba-geigy.ch (Hans W. Barz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.pcnet Subject: Partitioned PC-Net Keywords: NETBIOS Message-ID: <1990Sep13.091526.1540@ciba-geigy.ch> Date: 13 Sep 90 09:15:26 GMT Sender: news@ciba-geigy.ch (USENET News Agent) Organization: Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: cgchb1 Looking for the NETBIOS protocol I'am wondering what happens if a PC-Net is temporally paritioned into two subnets. During this partitioning new servers with equal names could start in both subnets. After the combination of the subnet this results in two equally named services. Can someone comment on this ? Hans W. Barz, R.1032.3.34, CIBA-GEIGY, 4002 Basel, Switzerland mail: cgch!whwb@relay.EU.net phone: +41/61/6974520 fax: +41/61/6973288