3Com EtherLink 3C985B-SX Installation And User Manual page 21

To ensure optimum performance, add at least 1024 additional packet receive buffers for each NIC installed in
your system.
NOTE: Depending on your system configuration, the number of clients being supported, and other
requirements, more than 1024 packet receive buffers may be needed for each NIC. For more information,
see "Editing the STARTUP.NCF File" on page 21.
4 If the listslot.nlm program has been copied into the \system directory, enter the following at
the system console/command line:
LOAD LISTSLOT
The following message should be displayed:
card found in slot slot-number
Note the slot number of the NIC you are installing; you will need this parameter when you are editing the
autoexec.ncf file.
5 Edit the autoexec.ncf file and modify NIC load parameters. The NIC parameters that can be
defined in the load statements are described in the table on page 18.
Example: A valid autoexec.ncf file is shown below. One set of load and bind commands (in bold) is
added for each type of frame the NIC is configured to support:
set Time Zone = PST8PDT
set Daylight Savings Time Offset = 1:00:00
set Start Of Daylight Savings Time = (APRIL SUNDAY FIRST
2:00:00 AM)
set End Of Daylight Savings Time = (OCTOBER SUNDAY LAST
2:00:00 AM)
set Default Time Server Type = SINGLE
# Note: The Time zone information mentioned above
# should always precede the SERVER name.
set Bindery Context = O=3Com
file server name MARS
ipx internal net 34881EEE
load 3c986 slot=4 frame=Ethernet_802.2 name=3c986_1_e82_2
bind ipx 3c986_1_e82_2 net=aaaa
mount all
set immediate purge of deleted files = on
set upgrade low priority threads = on
set display spurious interrupt alerts = on
set display lost interrupt alerts = on
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