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From: sutantha@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Suphachai Sutanthavibul)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: tcp/ip on NETBIOS
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Date: 9 Apr 88 00:08:59 GMT
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Reply-To: sutantha@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Suphachai Sutanthavibul)
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I am working on an IP-router for PC LAN and using NEBIOS datagram as
a communication channel between the router and client-PCs.

Now we have IP-Gateway up and BETA running. Within the IP-gateway module
itself we integrate SMTP-server which acts as a central post office
for the entrie PC user community. PC users can read/send their messages
from a front Unix-alike SMTP-client program. Also we have CMU-Telnet
program up and running incorporate with the IP-gateway. There is,
theoretically, no
limited number of sessions that IP-gateway can support. I expect
any 286-PC should be able to support at least 20-sessions. (Actually
the IP-gateway itself doesn't have to know any about 'session' at all,
what it does is to forward ip-packets as fast as it can. And my ip-gateway
does that.). Certainly you need a dedicated PC to be an ip-gateway,
but it seems to be quite wastefull. So in an IBM PC LAN environment
there is a need for some file-servers, as one of the design goal
our ip-gateway can run concurrently with an IBM PC file-server.

Next we may develop LPR-user and certainly FTP-user. 
Modifing CMU-based LPR is seemed to be relative simple and that is
what I am doing now. 

I am looking forward to hear any comments from you.