IPX transport (was: Re: NetBIOS-free SMB protocol on port 445 in Windows 2000/XP)

Christopher R. Hertel crh at nts.umn.edu
Wed Aug 29 22:59:21 GMT 2001


Even Novell are giving up on IPX.

There was talk once of trying to implement NetBEUI but I haven't heard 
anything about that in a long while.

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > As it turns out, however, most people still have NT, 9x, and ME systems on
> > their networks and these still need NBT.
> 
> On the other hand - were there any plans to implement IPX
> transport layer for NetBIOS ?
> 
> 
> Rafal 'Mimir' Szczesniak <mimir at spin.ict.pwr.wroc.pl>   |
> *BSD, Linux and Samba                                  /
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