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From: saddison@ca.excelan.com (Skip Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NetBios over WAN.
Keywords: lotus, wan, netbios
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.150100.13842@novell.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 11:20:22 GMT
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 15:01:00 GMT

In article <24174@well.sf.ca.us> osmana@well.sf.ca.us (Osman Arslaner) writes:
>...
>   In a Novell network which has Lotus servers using IPX/Netbios protocols,
>   can we access the remote Lotus Servers through our Cisco routers ?
>   Will the Netbios interface be transparent over the WAN since IPX does
>   the routing ??

You may receive some timeout errors with slow data rates and/or high latency
(ie. high delay) WAN links.  I would not recommend NETBIOS over X.25, for
example.  

I can't speak for cisco routers, but over Novell's own routers NETBIOS is
supported only on synchronous links of 19.2 kbps or greater and only then 
when there is no source of delay such as a satellite link.

-- Skip
   saddison@novell.com