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- From: senteck@iss.nus.sg (Tan Sen Teck)
- Subject: Problem with BYU/IPX over SMC/NDIS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.103912.26238@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:39:12 GMT
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- Hope I've got the right newsgroup, folks.
-
- I'm currently trying to setup a netware 3.11 network using FTP Software's
- PC/TCP v2.11 with generic packet driver ethdrv and BYU's IPX implementation
- over SMC's NDIS device driver. The setup consists of the following software
- and their respective version numbers:
-
- Protman.sys v1.1 - Protocol Manager from Microsoft
- SMCMAC.DOS v1.19 - SMC's NDIS ethernet adapter driver
- dis_pkt.gup v1.30 - FTP Software's mac/dis Packet Driver Convertor
- netbind.exe v1.1 - Microsoft's netbind program
- byuipx.com - IPX/SPX v3.10 with BYU Packet Driver v2.01
- netx.com v3.26 - Netware shell
- ethdrv.exe v2.11 - FTP Software's generic TCP kernal
-
- The whole setup on the client workstation works fine. I can communicate
- with my netware server and UNIX hosts concurrently from within Windows 3.1.
- Trouble starts when the network utilization goes up to about 30-35 percent.
- I start to get Network Error on Server; Error sending on network. Abort,
- Retry? messages while operating from DOS (Windows not loaded) and complete
- hanging of the station when operating from Windows 3.1. It got so bad at
- certain times that the station is not even able to bootup onto the
- netware network. I've got another station experiencing the same problem,
- but after changing the setup to just plain ipx.com without the BYU/NDIS
- stuff, the station works albeit slightly slower, when traffic is at 30
- percent. At one time I had both stations running side-by-side. The one
- with the straight ipx.com was chugging away merrily, whilst the BYU/IPX
- station was hanging all the time. Both stations run fine when network
- utilization is at about 10-20 percent. I'm running coax thin ethernet
- RG58A/U Type cable segments with Synoptics Repeaters and Cisco Routers.
- All the stations and server are on the same segment. The heavy traffic
- is usually generated by our Sun Workstations in that segment.
-
- Has anyone out there come across this problem. Is there a FAQ site
- I can look up for answers? I need help quick! The new network is
- scheduled to be up in the next couple of weeks.
-
-
- Mr. Tan Sen Teck.
- Analyst/Programmer
- Institute of Systems Science
- National University of Singapore.
- Internet: senteck@iss.nus.sg
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