Novell Tcp/Ip - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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Novell TCP/IP

The Novell
Module
BSDSOCK.NLM provides the BSD standards sockets interface.
TCP.NLM provides the transport layer TCP and UDP interfaces.
TCPIP.NLM provides IP, ICMP, IGMP, Routing and other networking
layer protocols.
NETLIB.NLM is a library of the entire stack.
INETCFG.NLM allows you to configure the stack with the help of
TCPCFG.NLM. The configuration is stored in SYS:\ETC\TCPIP.CFG
and SYS:\ETC\NETINFO.CFG. Please note, an abend may cause the
corruption of both of the above two .CFG files. So always take a back up
of the files.
The Novell TCP/IP software is now multiprocessor (MP) enabled and
multithreaded. The transport layer (TCP & UDP) is completely MP enabled
so that the stack can process any TCP/UDP connections on any processor.
These features are aimed at taking advantage of the multiple processors
available and at making the stack scale more than what it does on a uni-
processor machine.
The stack provides you with the TCP/IP protocols as per the Request For
Comments. NetWare 6 gives you the following new features:
Selective Acknowledgement (page 40)
Large Windows (page 40)
TCP Defend Fin Attack (page 41)
Classless IP Addresses (page 41)
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TCP/IP stack consists of the following five NetWare
(NLM ) programs:
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