jbvb@ftp.UUCP (James Van Bokkelen) (10/18/87)
The reason one can't use Netbios calls to access TCP/IP is that Netbios has its own set of conventions about datagrams, sessions, and names, and they are sufficiently limited in scope that you couldn't do much through them. A Netbios name looks nothing like either an IP address or a domain name, a Netbios session has different shutdown characteristics than TCP, etc. You can use TCP/IP as a transport layer for Netbios (see current Excelan or U-B or the various RFC-1001 conforming products on the way). You could hang a lot of bags on the side of Int 5C so that you could effectively control a TCP/IP through it. However, my guess is that it would take enough new hooks so that Netbios would be a pattern for the new hooks, and not much more. jbvb