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SubjectRe: Quick NetBEUI question
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.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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