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From: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NetBIOS over TCP/UDP
Keywords: RFC 1001, RFC 1002
Message-ID: <957@asylum.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 16:30:51 GMT
References: <185@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <185@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>Is anyone aware of any implementations of NetBIOS over TCP/UDP,
>as specified in RFCs 1001 and 1002 ??  (I posted this to the
>comp.protocols.ibm newsgroup last week and got zero response.)

I believe that Excelan, FTP Software and Ungermann-Bass do. That list
could be wrong and it's probably not all-inclusive.

>Also, if such a beast exists, does it have a *reasonable*
>user interface, as opposed to the PC NetBIOS interface,
>where everything is done through a single function call with
>a single argument (a pointer to an Ncb) ?

Sorry, but that IS Netbios. The programming interface defines the
semantics of the network operations and how you call them, and that's
it. Netbios is the programming interface, not what's under it.

RFCs 1001 and 1002 define some protocols that allow the programming
interface to be implemented on top of TCP/IP. These protocols are
necessary because the semantics of NETBIOS do not map well to the
semantics of TCP and UDP, particularly in the area of names.
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