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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP, IP Routers and Named Pipes
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Date: 3 Oct 90 16:42:22 GMT
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If you want Named Pipes, you need LAN Manager, which means Netbios,
which means RFC 1001/1002 if you want it over TCP/IP.  I don't know
of any RFC 1001/1002 Netbioses which implement "p-nodes" or
"m-nodes", so you can't use a conventional router.  TWG has a hack
which uses static client configuration to avoid this problem, but a
cleaner alternative (IMHO) is to use the cisco SLIP concentrator,
which keeps the clients on the same net/subnet as its attached
ethernet (fine as long as your servers are on that ethernet).

If you use the latter approach, you can use our PC/TCP as well as
TWG's WIN/PC.  I can never remember if Beame & Whiteside has an RFC
Netbios, but none of the others (Excelan, U-B, CMC, Interlan, Bridge)
support SLIP.

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