NetBEUI (3)

• Physical Layer:

  • NIC Adapter

• Data-link Layer:

  • NIC driver
  • NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification

• Network and Transport Layers:

  • NetBEUI - provides data transport services

• Session Layer:

  • NetBIOS - sets up sessions and maintains connections; not routable protocol, not suitable for WAN environment; NetBIOS broadcasts information about location of servers

• Presentation Layer:

  • SMB - Server Message Blocks; enables file sharing, print sharing and user-based messaging

• Application Layer:

  • Redirector - directs network requests to network servers and local commands to the local operating system

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