Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!TRWIND.IND.TRW.COM!karl From: karl@TRWIND.IND.TRW.COM (Karl Auerbach) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: IP in netbios datagrams. Message-ID: <8805102223.AA17908@trwind.ind.TRW.COM> Date: 10 May 88 22:23:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 > I would assume that we all agree that we should simply place raw > IP packets in the netbios datagram without any further encapsulation? I don't agree: 1) Some netbios implementations do name discovery for EACH outgoing datagram -- this tends to triple the net traffic, and much of this is usually broadcast. 2) Other netbios datagrams broadcast netbios datagrams -- without name discovery the sender does not know whether the target name is a group or unique name. In both these cases, the b'cast activity places a burden on every node of the net. --karl--