Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:41:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Quick NetBEUI question |
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Erik Corry wrote:
> > In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980728112833.182A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote: > > > Yes. NetBEUI encapsulates NETBIOS (the original PC Network) into > > TCP/IP Broadcast packets. > > You just got NetBEUI and NetBIOS mixed up. And your
No. The network I helped develop is NETBIOS. I damned well know how it works. And it's spelled NETBIOS. Maybe NetBIOS is something else?
> characterisation of NetBIOS over TCP is wrong (it's > not all broadcast). >
If multicast is broadcast, NetBEUI is broadcast. The fact that the IP address doesn't end in 255 means nothing.
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