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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes?
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 15:56:37 -0700
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Andrew Gillham wrote:
] I *believe* it is: NETBios Extended User Interface.
] If I remember correctly, NetBEUI was "invented" when Micro$oft
] realized that an SMB server couldn't talk to more than 255ish nodes
] on one "network", and the only way was to use multiple NICs/networks
] or "extend" the protocol. (NetBIOS being the "protocol" (sic))
NetBIOS is the INT 2A (and thanks to Intel OpenNet, 2C) BIOS level
interface to networks called by the INT 21 file handling routines.
NetBEUI is definitely a wire protocol, not an API.
The 255 node limit was the difference between the level 1 and 2
SMB protocol revisions (this one *is* documented in the samba
docs).
] Just to make life fun, and not exclude any "hacks", lets run
] NetBEUI on the Ethernet_802.3 "frame type"... :)
I don't think you can. The reason IPX works at all (Novell
buggered the 802.3 implementation) is that its protocol number
is an illegal length (everything can go to hell in a handbasket
on DECNet networks; DECNet consistently sends illegally long
packets.
I think you *must* have 802.2 LLC for NetBEUI (if I had the
OSI documents, I could tell you for sure -- but then, if I
had those, I could thel you want it stands for 8-)).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.