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From: cja@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Adie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Informations on NBP
Message-ID: <7635@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Dec 90 10:47:20 GMT
References: <1375@irit.irit.fr>
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <1375@irit.irit.fr> valderru@irit.irit.fr (Alberto VALDERRUTEN) writes:
>I am working in the domain of LANs and I like to have informations on NBP.
>(I don't have interesting documentations concerning this subject).

I too am interested in NBP information.  To expand slightly on this, 
NBP is a 3Com proprietary protocol included as one of the protocol
options in 3+Open.  It is small (in terms of memory requirements in a
DOS workstation) and fast, and we therefore use it here at Edinburgh.
Unfortunately, it currently has problems running with the Western
Digital Ethernet card, although I think these problems are associated
with the WD NDIS driver rather than the NBP protocol.

I'd be really interested in a specification of the protocol, so we can
understand the packets our analyser sees.

Chris Adie
Edinburgh University Computing Service