ljm@FTP.COM (leo j mclaughlin iii) (05/30/91)
>> >>4> Does LAN manager provide file services to UNIX boxes via NFS or does >> it implement its own protocol ? I'm not sure which of these would be >> preferable, perhaps you can offer some opinion ? > >LanMan uses ISO/OSI protocols.... > LAN Manager out of the box uses NetBEUI. It can be used over any protocol suite which supports NetBIOS including MAP/TOP (there is no ISO/OSI standard for NetBIOS over TPx), RFC 1001/1002 w/TCP-IP, XNS, IPX, etc. >...Most large network envorionments currently use TCP/IP but the trend is >toward shifting to ISO/OSI (the gov't has adopted ISO/OSI). That would be ISO/OSI written, of course, in ADA. enjoy, leo j mclaughlin iii ljm@ftp.com
jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden) (05/31/91)
In article <9105292330.AA27869@ftp.com> ljm@ftp.com writes: >LAN Manager out of the box uses NetBEUI. It can be used over any protocol >suite which supports NetBIOS including MAP/TOP (there is no ISO/OSI >standard for NetBIOS over TPx), RFC 1001/1002 w/TCP-IP, XNS, IPX, etc. > Leo's right, and AT&T's StarGROUP is Lan Man over MAP/Netbios. A few years ago, an interop was demonstrated between a buch of Lan Man OEM's demonstrating interoperability between their Lan Mans using MAP/Netbios (as I recall it was AT&T, Bull, 3Com and someone else). AT&T is currently the only Lan Man vendor shipping a MAP/Netbios layer as a commercial product. -- John Robert Breeden, jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."
cmilono@netcom.COM (Carlo Milono) (05/31/91)
In article <9105292330.AA27869@ftp.com> ljm@ftp.com writes: >>> >>>4> Does LAN manager provide file services to UNIX boxes via NFS or does >>> it implement its own protocol ? I'm not sure which of these would be >>> preferable, perhaps you can offer some opinion ? >> >>LanMan uses ISO/OSI protocols.... >> > >LAN Manager out of the box uses NetBEUI. It can be used over any protocol >suite which supports NetBIOS including MAP/TOP (there is no ISO/OSI >standard for NetBIOS over TPx), RFC 1001/1002 w/TCP-IP, XNS, IPX, etc. > >>...Most large network envorionments currently use TCP/IP but the trend is >>toward shifting to ISO/OSI (the gov't has adopted ISO/OSI). > >That would be ISO/OSI written, of course, in ADA. > >enjoy, >leo j mclaughlin iii >ljm@ftp.com > LAN Manager "out of the box", if from IBM or Microsoft, does indeed use NetBEUI - unfortunate, since it is a non-routable protocol. Considering that AT&T has linked with MS, and AT&T uses TP4 (lower four layers of OSI), and since about 10 vendors are behind this linkage, I would expect to see more and more TP4/OSI networks being build. True, the MAP/TOP spec isn't full OSI, and implements an AFI of 49 (local), which is not GOSIP compliant, TP4 CLNS *is* a true OSI standard...just not exactly what the Government wants. I might hasten to add that it is quite easily configurable to GOSIP specs as regards the Network Layer. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono | | Personal: cmilono@netcom.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | | Hobbes: "Life in the Great Suburban Outback is certainly fraught with | | peril." | | Calvin: "If you'd seen it, you'd have been scared too." | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+