gery@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gery Dueck) (10/01/90)
Does anyone know where I can acquire the source for NETBIOS? I have built a system to serve disk and other facilities from VMS to PCs based on Western Digital's WD8003 ethernet card. The system also provides a simple mechanism for allowing other application software to be layered on my WD8003 driver. The mechanism has been tested with PC/IP by simply replacing the bottom layer of CMU's software with calls to my driver and providing an interrupt driven callback to CMU's old interrupt handler. I would like to do the same thing with NETBIOS, that is, layer it on my driver. I don't know if NETBIOS is driver independent, as the only implementation I have access to is Western Digital's NETBIOS emulator which is integrated with their ethernet driver (and I don't have the source). It may be that all implementations of NETBIOS in existence are proprietary and that my request will have to go unanswered. In that case, I will consider implementing from scratch, provided I can acquire a specification of NETBIOS. So, my requests, in order of preference, are: 1) source for NETBIOS 2) NETBIOS to MAC interface specification 3) complete NETBIOS specification. Thanks - Gery