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In article <1iklr2INNrct@apache.dtcc.edu> bob@hobbes.dtcc.edu (Bob Rahe) writes:
>  Anyway, for the IPX stuff everything seems fine, the catch is that on
>one of the file servers is a Racal-Interlan gateway.  This allows PCs to
>access TCP/IP thru a file server.  The catch is that altho it uses the
>Novell fileserver to store/load up the files to the pc for things like
>telnet, ftp etc., the actual traffic between the telnet process on the
>PC and the gateway software on the server is NetBios.  This is where I
>get lost, it appears that NetBios is only bridgeable.  Is that correct?
>If so, it would seem we either turn on bridging (yuck - how?) or we have
>to interconnect the lans with bridges or hubs or something, we will not
>be able to have different lans on different router interfaces.
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NetBIOS is generally not considered to be a network protocol.  It is more of an
API - a set of software interrupts used by programs to communicate across a LAN.
 
Several people make implementations of NetBIOS.  IBM is one company that does.
Their implementation uses the NetBEUI psuedo-protocol for communication across
the LAN between PC's.  You are correct that this protocol is NOT routable.  You
would need bridging.
 
Novell also makes an implementation of NetBIOS.  It uses IPX as the protocol
for communication across the LAN between workstations.  Since IPX is routable
(and you are already routing IPX), if you used Novell's NetBIOS, you would not
have to change anything on the routers.
 
Note that to a program running on the PC, both IBM's and Novell's implementation
are compatible.  They provide the same API to the programs.  On the network
side, however, they are different, and if one machine is running Novell's
NetBIOS and another is running IBM's, they will not be able to communicate.
 
Novell's implementation is not a separate product.  You should have gotten it
with all the other workstation programs.  It is NETBIOS.COM (or .EXE).
 
                   - Brett    (rfranken@cs.umr.edu)