daniels@cat22.cs.wisc.edu (Daniel Schneidewend) (07/20/90)
I have tried to use the nb.com packet driver to run over netbios. The driver loads, but none of the packet driver software (nos, ncsa, pcroute ...) will work with it. I have tried every place I can find to get a different version of nb.com, but all I came up with is the one that says it's version 3. If anybody has a working installation using nb.com please let me know your configuration . Thanks Dan Schneidwend daniels@cat22.cs.wisc.edu
stu@gtisqr.uucp (Stu Donaldson) (07/25/90)
In article <4988@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> daniels@cat22.cs.wisc.edu writes: >I have tried to use the nb.com packet driver to run over >netbios. The driver loads, but none of the packet driver >software (nos, ncsa, pcroute ...) will work with it. What are you trying to do with it? I was under the impression that the netbios packet driver allowed you to hide IP packets within netbios packets. The result would be you could send IP information to a gateway that could strip off the netbios information and send the IP packet out again possibly over tcp/ip on ethernet. What it boils down to, is that you can't take a network card with a netbios driver on it, put a packet driver on top of that, and access the tcp/ip network. :-(. I say all of this with some degree of caution, since I am by no means an expert in PC networking, and this all fits with what I found when I tried to solve the above problem on a network I was installing. -- Stu Donaldson UUCP: {smart-host}!gtisqr!stu Global Technology ARPA: gtisqr!stu@yang.cpac.washington.edu Mukilteo, Washington Bell: (206) 742-9111