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From: hamish@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: [NETBIOS] Anyone with NetBIOS Unix code? Or SMB?
Followup-To: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Date: 28 Nov 1993 20:17:49 GMT
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A Wizard of Earth C (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
> In article <2d1vuh$4am@jake.micromuse.co.uk> peter@micromuse.co.uk writes:
> >I thought much of IPX/SPX whatever are documented in various texts. If
> >someone implements it "clean-room" style then no license ? Like I know
> >DEC have some sort of patent on part of LAT or something. Is there
> >something similar in the Novell protocol stack ?

> I am pretty sure a spec has never been published; I don't know its
> status.  Sorry.


IPX/SPX are public knowledge, and are published widely in many places,
available from novell and others. Its very similar to Xerox XNS. (Its
actually based on it).

NCP on the other hand (Netware Core Protocol) is the protocols that
netware server/clients use to actually send and recieve commands to
reach oither. Mostly IPX is used as a transport medium, but IP is now
available as well. NCP is very secret and hush hush, although you can
licence the specs from novell (very expensive), or do a clean room and
develope your own (Not too easy, but I think it could be done in a few
weeks with a network sniffer and a little time with the novell sold
toolkits).


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