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Re: IPX and NetBios routing/bridging?

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From: Steven L. Johnson
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:53
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rfranken@cs.umr.edu (Richard Brett Frankenberger) writes:

>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.

My understanding is that novell helper-address's must be configured to
properly route or flood NetBios broadcasts.  At least that is what
I had to do when users started running NetBios applications across a
Cisco WAN.  A minor but necessary change.

-Steve
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Subject: Re: IPX and NetBios routing/bridging?
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