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  2. From: Howard@Gilbert.ycc.yale.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: IBMTOK_NIF problem...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.213250.19244@news.yale.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Aug 92 21:32:50 GMT
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  13. In  <1992Aug12.151849.6154@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>  giani@nexus.yorku.ca (John Sfetsas) writes:                                                                                                                                                  
  14. > I am trying to install the Novell lan requesters to access Novell servers                                                                                                                                                                    
  15. > from my PC, running OS2 2.0 and TCP/IP. While booting up I get the following                                                                                                                                                                 
  16. > error message :                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  17. > Program error while trying to bind IBMTOK_NIF.                                                                                                                                                                                               
  18.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  19. I assume that the Novell requestor was installed on top of an existing version                                                                                                                                                                 
  20. of the IBM LAPS NDIS support (based on the reference to TCP/IP).  To do this                                                                                                                                                                   
  21. one installs a Novell replacement for the IBMTOK MAC driver, then Novel allows NDIS protocols to share the card.  Were this done, a new MAC entry would have been added to \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL.INI in the form                                    
  22.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  23. [TOKEN]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  24.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  25. And then all of the BINDINGS= in all of the LAPS protocols would be changed to read as in                                                                                                                                                      
  26.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  27. [TCPIP_nif]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  28.  DriverName = TCPIP$                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  29.  Bindings = TOKEN                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  30.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  31. Note that the vanilla LAPS would have read Bindings=IBMTOK_XIF to bind to the IBM supplied DRIVER=IBMTOK MAC driver.  The description of the error suggests that the [TCPIP_nif] was not edited to change the binding.                         
  32.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  33. NOTE:  When Novell suggests editing its configuration to change the maximum packet size on the Token Ring, do not omit this step.  I tried to get along without it and got sporadic TCP session failure when anyone sent a large packet to me. 
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