[net.lan] What protocol does 3BNET use?

blm@chinet.UUCP (Brad L. McKinley) (03/14/86)

A friend of mine (not on the net) is having trouble getting a simple
question answered.  What protocol does 3BNET use?  TCP/IP?  XNS?  Or
something of AT&T's own creation?
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cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue) (03/18/86)

3BNET refers to the "transport" level protocol used above Ethernet.
More specifically, it really refers to the set of Ethernet user
features provided by AT&T: file transfer (via nisend), remote
command execution (via nisend), electronic mail (via mailx), and
the 3BNET Application Programming Interface. The 3BNET API allows
a user to create his own network applications by constructing
and sending/receiving his own Ethernet packets.

Chris Donahue
AT&T Info. Sys.
Application Engineering

bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (03/18/86)

>A friend of mine (not on the net) is having trouble getting a simple
>question answered.  What protocol does 3BNET use?  TCP/IP?  XNS?  Or
>something of AT&T's own creation?

Something of AT&T's own creation.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University