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From: ash@omega.UUCP (Andrew Hardie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Novell 802.3
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Date: 15 Apr 91 21:27:33 GMT
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There was some traffic on the net a month or so ago about Novell 802.3
packets (datagrams, I think, to be accurate), with the comment that these,
to *really* be OSI conformant, should have inside them an 802.3 header
and a SNAP field. The penny only dropped on me about this one after reading
something this week. Does this mean that Novell's "OSI Support" is just
protocol tunnelling of IPX inside 802.3 packets and that all that has
actually been done is to change from an Ethernet packet with a type
field of 8137, useful for separating it from TCP/IP, and replaced it
with an 802.3 packet by putting in the ISO "length" field the protocol
doesn't actually need in order to operate?
This all sounds a bit marginal to me, or have I got the wrong end of
the stick here? 
Andrew
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