    AST RESEARCH, INC.         TECHNICAL BULLETIN #0645                  11-13-90

                                NOVELL NETBIOS ISSUES

    Customers using our gateway products are experiencing the following problems:

        - Stations are intermittently locking up (especially when utilization
          increases).

        - Error occurs: "failed to initialize master gateway" upon linking to
          master gateway.

    Novell has indicated that end-users may experience these or similar problems
    with all revisions of their v2.15 NETBIOS.  All customers that are having
    related problems should upgrade their NETBIOS version to v3.01.