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From: gery@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gery Dueck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: NETBIOS Source or Spec
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.054634.18238@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 1 Oct 90 05:46:34 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Does anyone know where I can acquire the source for NETBIOS?

I have built a system to serve disk and other facilities from VMS to
PCs based on Western Digital's WD8003 ethernet card.  The system also
provides a simple mechanism for allowing other application software to
be layered on my WD8003 driver.  The mechanism has been tested with
PC/IP by simply replacing the bottom layer of CMU's software with calls
to my driver and providing an interrupt driven callback to CMU's old
interrupt handler.

I would like to do the same thing with NETBIOS, that is, layer it on my
driver. I don't know if NETBIOS is driver independent, as the only
implementation I have access to is Western Digital's NETBIOS emulator
which is integrated with their ethernet driver (and I don't have the
source).

It may be that all implementations of NETBIOS in existence are
proprietary and that my request will have to go unanswered.  In that
case, I will consider implementing from scratch, provided I can acquire
a specification of NETBIOS.

So, my requests, in order of preference, are:
   1) source for NETBIOS 
   2) NETBIOS to MAC interface specification
   3) complete NETBIOS specification.

Thanks - Gery