netbios question
bradm...@yahoo.com
file and then I start another session from HOTH<00> to ALDERAAN<20>
requesting the same file how are these two sessions kept seperate? Is
there a field in the NetBIOS header that performs that function?
Thanks,
Brad
Michael Wojcik
An (incomplete) NetBIOS specification is available at
http://www.netbiosguide.com.
It appears that there's a session number in the Network Control
Block (NCB) - specifically the third byte. The session number is
assigned when a session is allocated. That serves to distinguish
sessions allocated for a given NetBIOS name. NetBIOS names must
be unique on the network, and the NCB also contains a byte
identifying the name (as an index into the name table), so the
combination of session number and name uniquely identifies a
session on the network.
That's what it looks like on cursory inspection, anyway. I've
only ever dealt with this stuff at the SMB level myself.
RFCs 1001 and 1002 (for NetBIOS over TCP/IP) may also contain
useful information.
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