Installing And Configuring The Windows Nt Driver; Software Installation Requirements; Installation And Configuration Scenario - 3Com EtherLink 3C985B-SX User Manual

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Follow the instructions in this chapter to install the NIC
driver and DynamicAccess software on a server running
Windows NT 4.0.

Software Installation Requirements

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Installation and Configuration Scenario
The instructions in this guide follow a simple scenario that
demonstrates the fundamentals of setting up a sample
configuration. Setting up your own configuration may
require a slightly different sequence of tasks and different
numbers of NICs. The Windows NT scenario described here
illustrates a server on which no other NICs are installed and
follows this sequence:
1 Installing the Software
This includes installing the driver and installing
DynamicAccess software for servers.
2 Creating a Load Balancing/RSL Group
3 Adding NICs to a Group
4 Creating a VLAN
5 Specifying Traffic Priorities
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ONFIGURING THE
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INDOWS
NIC — At least one 3Com 3C985B-SX server NIC
must be installed in a PCI bus master slot.
Operating system — Microsoft Windows NT
version 4.0 must be installed with the most recent
Service Pack and patches available from Microsoft
technical support (www.microsoft.com).
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RIVER