Re: Bridging

Anders Hammarquist (iko@netg.se)
22 May 1997 18:07:24 -0400

In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970522145952.13258D-100000@maslow.cia-g.com>,
Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> wrote:
>
>NetBEUI can be routed encap'ed in IPX (or IP?) or can be bridged.
>
>How do you mean Shiva _routes_ it?

AFAIK, what Shiva does is route netBEUI-over-IP and bridge the
netBEUI-over-IP UDP broadcasts, while having the option not to bridge
other broadcasts. (Or at least that's the way I understood
their manual when I looked at it earlier today.)

>> >How does shiva route netbeui.
>>
>> That's a really good question. When I got learned in networking stuff, I
>> was taught that without a layer 3 or network identifier in the protocol,
>> it CANNOT be routed because the router has no network id to send the
>> packet to.
>>
>> If Shiva "routes" NetBEUI, I'd like to see a decode of the packet.

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