Shutting Down And Resetting Logical Boards; Removing Network Boards - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Shutting Down and Resetting Logical Boards

Removing Network Boards

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Server Communications Administration Guide
You can shut down a logical board without removing its resources. In this
case, you can restart the board, if needed, without reloading and binding the
LAN driver.
1
Determine the logical board number or name.
A name can be assigned to a logical board when the board is loaded using
the LOAD command. If no name was assigned to the board, you can
determine the logical board number by using MONITOR.
1a
At the server console prompt, load MONITOR.
1b
Select LAN/WAN Drivers and highlight the desired LAN driver.
A screen is displayed containing logical board numbers and other
data associated with the driver. Note the logical board number you
want.
2
Enter the following at the server console prompt:
SHUTDOWN NETWORK INTERFACE board_number | board_name
Specify either the logical board number or the board name.
3
To restart the logical board, enter the following at the server console
prompt:
RESET NETWORK INTERFACE board_number | board_name
NOTE:
Resetting the logical board does not reset the network board.
If you want to remove a network board and there is only one instance of the
board in the server, you can simply unload the LAN driver and physically
remove the board. Unloading the LAN driver releases the memory resources
used by the board and driver. See UNLOAD in Utilities Reference.
However, if you have several boards of the same kind in the server, and you
want to remove just one, removing the LAN driver would disable all the
boards. You would then have to reload and bind the LAN driver for each board
that remained in the server.
Use the following procedure to unload one board while keeping other boards
of the same type enabled.