RSC/MP 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

NetBIOS Network Interface Configuration
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Configuration Options Reference
ARP uses (and requires) the NetBIOS broadcast feature. If your network configuration
supports NetBIOS broadcasting, then you can use ARP. With ARP, all hosts listen on a
common group name (by default, ZPIPEARP). To connect with a host, the workstation
broadcasts a message containing the desired host’s full system name (as defined in
the host Piccolo’s [Pipeman] section) the SystemName and DomainName options. All
hosts receive this broadcast message, but only the target host responds by sending its
own session name through which the workstation then communicates privately.
When the NetBIOS NIF needs to resolve the address of a remote system, it broadcasts
an ARP request message to all systems on the local network that use the same ARP
name. When the destination system receives the ARP request, it responds to the
source system with a message containing the session name of the destination system.
The NIF then uses the session name to establish a NetBIOS session for data transfer.
Configuration of the NBName in the Resolver section overrides the ARP, so that the
NIF will not use the NetBIOS broadcast. Each NBName must be unique across the
network. Systems that do not support broadcast must use the Resolver section in
which the destination SystemName is matched with its assigned NBName.
The NetBIOS NIF allows up to 16 NBName tags to be specified in a single extended
address. The address tags are processed from left to right. The NIF will try to connect
to the address specified by each tag until a connection is established or the tags are
exhausted.
A sample NetBIOS resolver entry is:
test.corsof.com=nbname:host2,nbname:host3
Configuration Options Reference
The following options are available for configuring the NetBIOS network interface
process in the PIPE.INI file. The example configuration file shown later in this section
uses some of these options.
Network Interface Section ([NIF-nifname])
This NIF section contains options that control the operation of the NetBIOS network.
These settings are read by the NIF process when it starts. The settings in this section
are preceded by the section name [NIF-nifname], where nifname is the user-defined
symbolic name of the NIF.
Note. The NonStop implementations of NBT and NBX do not support the broadcast feature.
They require configuration of NBName and the use of the Resolver section.