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From: KCM@BYUADMIN.BITNET (Kelly McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: IP over netbios.
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Date: 11 Apr 88 16:03:12 GMT
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It appears that this is becoming an important issue since there appears
to be at least four  different implementations of IP over netbios.
     1.  My KA9Q driver for netbios.
     2.  The implementation at Waterloo.
     3.  the Cornell tn3270 implementation.
     4.  CMU driver done at Univ. of Wisc.

To my knowledge, 1 and 3 use netbios datagram support to transport the
IP packets to the gateway. I think 2 has both datagram or  connection
support,(is that right?) and 4 uses netbios connections.

My personal opinion was that datagrams were adequate, though we had to
live with the 512 byte limit. I believe that we should try and merge
support to some extent so that there would be a compatibility of
products.  We chose the KA9Q base because it offered SMTP and FTP service
to the PC lan, and are using it as the gateway between the campus ethernet
and the departmental lans.  However, we would certainly like to use the
Cornell tn3270 product for IBM host access.  It appears that the only
difference in the implementation has been the choice of the netbios
datagram name.

In any case, I'm interested in a serious discussion to merge our direction
on this subject.