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- NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT
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- TITLE: 41RTR2.EXE; NetWare 4.10 OS Protocol Update
- README FOR: 41RTR2.EXE
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- NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS:
- NetWare 4.1
-
- ABSTRACT:
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- This release contains several fixes for numerous protocol-related
- NLM(TM) files in the NetWare 4.10 release. Various problems with
- TCP/IP, AppleTalk, IPXRTR, or INETCFG are addressed. Actual
- problems and solutions are detailed later in the readme technical
- information document.
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- SYMPTOM:
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- Problems with TCP/IP, AppleTalk, IPXRTR, or INETCFG.
-
- NOTE: See SOLUTION SPECIFICS for more symptoms and solutions.
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- SOLUTION:
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- Self-Extracting File Name: 41RTR2.EXE Revision: A
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- Self-Extracting File Name: 41rtr2.exe
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- Files Included Size Date Time
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- ..\
- 41RTR2.TXT (This file)
- ADSP.MSG 10494 1-13-95 1:46:44 pm
- ADSP.NLM 74217 1-13-95 1:46:48 pm
- APPLETLK.MSG 35488 3-31-95 7:55:50 pm
- APPLETLK.NLM 346809 3-31-95 7:56:14 pm
- AURP.MSG 11236 3-31-95 8:05:18 pm
- AURP.NLM 80698 3-31-95 8:05:22 pm
- BRIDGE.NLM 60442 5-4-95 4:02:56 pm
- INETCFG.NLM 330230 2-2-95 5:25:40 pm
- IPXCFG.NLM 266056 2-2-95 5:14:04 pm
- IPXCON.NLM 345530 5-10-95 11:21:34 am
- IPXRTR.NLM 317202 5-10-95 11:11:48 am
- IPXRTRNM.NLM 50658 5-10-95 11:15:08 am
- LLC8022.NLM 35922 12-19-94 11:40:04 am
- PARSER.NLM 7906 5-4-95 4:04:24 pm
- TCPIP.NLM 392005 5-8-95 11:52:22 am
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- Installation Instructions:
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- 1. Make a backup copy of each NLM file and MSG file.
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- 2. Copy the new NLM files to the SYS:SYSTEM directory.
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- 3. Copy the new MSG files to the SYS:SYSTEM\NLS\4 directory.
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- NOTE: BRIDGE, PARSER, and LLC8022 are required only on NetWare
- for OS/2 servers.
-
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- SOLUTION SPECIFICS:
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- AppleTalk:
- Resolves problems resulting in hung or aborted print jobs for
- applications using the AppleTalk 3.x APIs.
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- Improves error detection on SFT III(TM) systems.
-
- Fixes a problem that might cause an invalid DDP checksum of
- 0xFFFF to be transmitted when DDP checksums are enabled.
-
- AURP:
- Now waits up to five minutes for transmissions to complete
- before unloading. This prevents a server from abending because
- transmissions are still pending when AURP is unloaded.
-
- ADSP:
- Corrects a problem where a NetWare 4.1 server abends because
- ADSP released an invalid memory resource.
-
- BRIDGE and PARSER:
- Allows bridging to work concurrently over X.25 and Frame Relay.
-
- INETCFG:
- Improves the conversion of load commands from NetWare for
- Macintosh to the INETCFG database.
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- IPXCFG:
- Corrects a problem where the frame type is set incorrectly for
- IPX if the default is not selected.
-
- IPXRTR:
- Corrects a problem with load balancing. If you want to use load
- balancing, set the Maximum Number of Path Splits parameter under
- the Expert IPX Protocol Options to a value greater than 1. A new
- SET command has been added for additional configuration of load
- balancing when a server has multiple bindings to the same LAN
- without going through a router. The syntax of the new SET command
- is as follows:
-
- SET LOAD BALANCE LOCAL LAN = <OFF/ON>
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- The default state is OFF.
-
- This SET command should be used in the following instances:
-
- - Turn on load balancing if a server is connected to a LAN
- through multiple interfaces and the interfaces are either on the
- same media or attached to different ports of a switch.
-
- - Turn off load balancing if a server has multiple interfaces to
- two segments of the same LAN that is also bridged.
-
- NOTE: The values 0, -1, and -2 are reserved and should never be
- assigned as IPX network numbers.
-
- Corrects a problem where the SAP from a print server was not
- aged out if RIP and SAP were operating in AUTO mode.
-
- Prevents an abend that occurs if an SPX application sends a
- packet to the internal network and load balancing for the local
- LAN is turned on using the SET command described above.
-
- Adds a feature that enables NLSP to switch automatically from
- broadcast to multicast when all NLSP nodes on the LAN support
- multicast.
-
- Corrects a problem where wildcard filters were applied
- inappropriately to the source of the packet to all interfaces.
-
- Corrects the handling of the Get Nearest Server request so that
- it does not respond with the nearest Directory Server if the SET
- REPLY TO GET NEAREST SERVER option is off. IPXRTR does not allow
- static routes or services to be added to a link that is not using
- static routing.
-
- IPXRTRNM:
- Corrects a problem where IPXRTRNM abended on NetWare for
- Windows.
-
- IPXCON:
- Corrects a problem where IPXCON was not displaying a level 2
- neighbor.
-
- LLC8022:
- Provides LAN Network Manager (LNM) functionality.
-
- NOTE: Before you install any NetWare for SAA patches, check the
- current version of LLC8022. Be sure to make a backup of LLC8022
- before installing any NetWare for SAA patches. (Some SAA patches
- incorrectly overwrite newer versions of LLC8022. If this happens,
- just restore the backup.)
-
- TCP/IP:
- Supports OSPF on SFT III IO Engines. The Autonomous System
- Boundary Router parameter must be enabled in the OSPF
- configuration. Use INETCFG to enable and configure OSPF.
-
- Corrects a problem with directed broadcasts that caused
- broadcasts to be forwarded in only one direction.
-
- Allows routes learned from SNMP to be advertised by the IP
- routing protocol.
-
- Fixes a problem with route filter exceptions. Depending on the
- order in which the filters were set, an exception could be
- ignored.
-
- Fixes a problem that might cause a page fault if a TCP or UDP
- stream is aborted while data is in transmission.
-
- Fixes a race condition that might cause an abend when running
- SFT III on a large IP internet.
-
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- PATCH HISTORY:
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- Patch 41RTR1.EXE was formerly available on NetWire; this
- 41RTR2.EXE patch supersedes it.
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