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From: jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: LAN Manager and ISO/OSI  (Was: LAN MANAGER Questions)
Message-ID: <1991May30.180059.6119@netcom.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 18:00:59 GMT
References: <9105292330.AA27869@ftp.com>
Organization: Netcom - Somewhere in the S.F. Bay Area
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In article <9105292330.AA27869@ftp.com> ljm@ftp.com writes:
>LAN Manager out of the box uses NetBEUI.  It can be used over any protocol
>suite which supports NetBIOS including MAP/TOP (there is no ISO/OSI 
>standard for NetBIOS over TPx), RFC 1001/1002 w/TCP-IP, XNS, IPX, etc.
>

Leo's right, and AT&T's StarGROUP is Lan Man over MAP/Netbios. A few years
ago, an interop was demonstrated between a buch of Lan Man OEM's demonstrating
interoperability between their Lan Mans using MAP/Netbios (as I recall it
was AT&T, Bull, 3Com and someone else). AT&T is currently the only Lan Man
vendor shipping a MAP/Netbios layer as a commercial product.

-- 
 John Robert Breeden, 
    jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden
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 "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose 
  from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's 
  model."