[BC] "Jealous" equipment

[Cowboy]

On Friday 13 February 2009 11:59 am, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>  I haven't been following this thread, but just read Cowboy's interesting
>  comments. I've been working on design of equipment where we need to
>  provide some method for the user to get initial contact with the unit so
>  he/she can change the configuration as desired. Here's some info I wrote
>  for the manual. Does it seem accurate and a proper approach?

 Yes, with two small caveats.

 Micro$oft ( as one would expect ) doesn't fully comply with the NetBIOS
 standard, as they have appropriated part of the name space ( the last
 character typically ) as a "suffix" to a shortened name space.
 ( M$ has this thing with suffixes and name extensions that no one else
 seems to have a problem with )

 NetBIOS is a alternative standard that has been adapted to run over
 TCP, but does not require TCP. It can run happily over IPX, token-ring,
 and a few others.
 NetBEUI is an expansion and adaptation of NetBIOS, also co-opted
 by Micro$oft to mean something completely different than what
 it really was.
 SO, be careful with how *you* implement NetBIOS, and all should be well.

 Your understanding of IP autoconfig is very similar to mine, but I'm not
 sure how M$ implemented that, either. 

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Cowboy