Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:53:00 +0000 | From | Derek Fawcus <> | Subject | Re: NETBEUI support? |
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On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 12:52:48PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Please don't use NETBEUI. It encapsulates NETBIOS packets into BROADCAST > > packets. This means that every machine on your LAN will receive all data > > Then your implementation is wrong. Only netbios name stuff goes that way. > Most netbios data goes over reliable LLC 802.2
Agreed. However are people sure that the name stuff is on Broadcast? While working on a ethernet driver for an OS (FlexOS), I saw that it's NETBEUI stack was sending ethernet Multicast packets for the name claiming - or was this stack just being kind (and non standard)?
-- Derek Fawcus df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
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