Hi all Thanks to those who replied with some useful help. Both machines are now talking to each other now, changing netmask formats had absolutely no effect on the 90.0 subnet. So I now have three NIC 's in the linux machine, with a dedicated link to the windows machine using one of the public class C addresses. Netbios bcasts received by both machines with the netmask set in either format, a few permission problems still to sort out.
The same netmask formats were used on 8.0, 8.2 and 9.0 and netbios broadcasts were made in the same subnet, as one of the machines is running MDK7.2 with a 2.2 kernel due to some querky software running on it. IPCHAINS is used on that machine and an entry had to be put in to block ports 137:139, and had the bcasts been on the 91.0 subnet there would have been some very irate users the other end of a radio link. So my conclusion is that is is new to 9.1. Thanks Richard -- richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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