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- From: mniven@crc.ac.uk (Dr. M.J. Niven)
- Subject: Windows for Workgroups/Novell Netware/Packet Drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.130141.22540@crc.ac.uk>
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- Keywords: Windows Novell Netware Packet Protocols
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- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:01:41 GMT
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-
- Thanks to all who helped with my query about Windows for Workgroups
- and packet drivers. As promised, a summary of the info I received.
-
- W4W installs its own driver for the network board, called an NDIS
- driver. This seems to be conceptually similar to a packet driver in
- that it allows multiple protocols to plug into it, governed by a
- separate driver/program called the protocol manager.
-
- To use packet driver programs you have to get the "packet driver shim"
- which plugs-in in such a way to provide the packet interface. The
- current version is dis_pkt9.dos, which is available from a large number
- of ftp sites (do an archie search to find your nearest) as dis_pkt9.zip,
- which also includes documentation and source. This then needs to be
- loaded after the NDIS driver in config.sys, and the protocol.ini file
- needs to be edited to include it. I've included samples of the modified
- files below.
-
- Once it is all loaded you have to start it all up by running
- "net start" before anything else will see the drivers - I had a fair
- amount of frustration before I realised this.
-
- I would add that we have been somewhat disappointed by the level of
- support for Novell Netware. This was obviously a commercial decision
- by Microsoft to provide better support for their own LAN Manager, but
- in view of the number of Netware users somewhat more should have been
- done for them.
-
- Good luck!
-
- Mark Niven
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-
- Sample Configuration files
- ==========================
-
- CONFIG.SYS
- ==========
- rem It's useful to load high if you can
- rem as it uses quite a lot of RAM
- devicehigh=C:\Windows\protman.dos /i:C:\Windows
- rem directory for protocol.ini file -^^^^^^^^^^
- devicehigh=c:\Windows\dis_pkt9.dos
- devicehigh=C:\Windows\workgrp.sys
- devicehigh=C:\Windows\ne2000.dos
- devicehigh=C:\W4WKGP\msipx.sys
-
- AUTOEXEC.BAT
- ============
- C:\Windows\net start
- rem next two lines provide support for packet driver progs
- rem under Windows
- lh winpkt 0x61 0x62
- lh pktint
- lh C:\Windows\msipx
- c:\Windows\netx
-
- PROTOCOL.INI
- ============
- [network.setup]
- version=0x3100
- netcard=ms$ne2clone,1,MS$NE2CLONE
- transport=ms$netbeui,MS$NETBEUI
- transport=ms$ipx,MS$IPX
- lana0=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$ipx
- lana1=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$netbeui
-
- [protman]
- DriverName=PROTMAN$
- PRIORITY=MS$NETBEUI
-
- [MS$NE2CLONE]
- DriverName=MS2000$
- IOBASE=0x300
- INTERRUPT=10
-
- [pktdrv] ;||
- drivername=dis_pkt9$ ;|| add these lines to tell
- bindings=MS$ne2clone ;|| the protocol manager about
- intvec=0x62 ;|| the packet driver shim
-
- [MS$NETBEUI]
- DriverName=netbeui$
- SESSIONS=10
- NCBS=32
- BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE
- LANABASE=1
-
- [MS$IPX]
- DriverName=IPX$
- MediaType=Ethernet_II (DIX)
- BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE
-