Loading And Binding Lan Drivers - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Loading and Binding LAN Drivers

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Server Communications Administration Guide
Once the LAN driver is loaded, you must bind the LAN driver to a
communication protocol. Binding a LAN driver assigns a network
communication protocol to the driver and the network board. Without a
protocol, the LAN driver can't process packets, and workstations attached to
the cabling scheme from that board can't log in.
The protocol is actually bound to a protocol ID (PID) that is part of a frame
type. Because a frame type can have multiple PIDs, you can bind one LAN
driver and one frame type to multiple protocols. You can also bind the same
protocol to more than one LAN driver.
To load and bind LAN drivers, you can use
NWCONFIG NLM
LOAD and BIND commands
If you know the parameters required by the communication protocol, you
can use the LOAD and BIND commands to load and bind LAN drivers at
the server command line. For more information, see
Utilities Reference.
When you bind the IPX
scheme's IPX external network number.
The IPX external network number is a hexadecimal number. This number
must be the same for all boards cabled together that use the same frame type.
The IPX external number must be different from the number used by boards
of other frame types and must be different from the addresses of other cabling
systems on the network. The cabling scheme's IPX external network number
must also be different from the internal network address for any node on the
network.
The following procedure explains how to use NWCONFIG to load a LAN
driver and bind a protocol.
1
At the server console prompt, enter
[LOAD] NWCONFIG
2
Select Driver Options > Configure Network Drivers.
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protocol to a board, you specify the cabling
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BIND and LOAD in