Chapter 5: Novell Netware 6.5
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If you have a PCI-1 bus in your system, add BUSTYPE=PCI1 to the
command line (for example, LOAD C:\SERVER\CATNIC
BUSTYPE=PCI1). Otherwise the driver may not find the card. If you do
not know which bus you have, try loading without the driver without the
option. If it loads, you can omit the option.
Add the necessary load and bind statements to the server's
AUTOEXEC.NCF file so that the LAN driver loads automatically each
time the server starts up. Here is an example of how the commands
would look in your AUTOEXEC.NCF file.
("NCF Files Options - Create / Edit Server Startup
Files")
LOAD CATNIC FRAME=Ethernet_802.3 (overrides default
frame type)
BIND IPX to CATNIC net=1 (all servers on the LAN
segment need the same #)
2. Proceed with the installation as outlined in the Novell Netware
documentation.
Multiple
Adapters
If you have multiple Allied Telesyn adapters installed in the system, use
the keyword SLOT to identify a card to a driver. If you have multiple
adapters in a single server, each adapter must have a different network
number and SLOT number. Also, you might want to name each adapter.
To distinguish particular cards, add the options in LOAD commands. For
example:
LOAD CATNIC FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=LAN_A SLOT=1
BIND IPX TO LAN_A NET=11
LOAD CATNIC FRAME=Ethernet_802.2 NAME=LAN_B SLOT=2
BIND IPX TO LAN_B NET=22
Add the load and bind statements you need to the server's
AUTOEXEC.NCF file so that the adapter drivers load automatically each
time the server starts.
In an IPX internal router configuration (a server with two adapters, each
connected to a different network), the data transfer rate across the router
can be low. This happens if client workstations have CPU speeds equal to
or higher than the server. You might be able to increase the data transfer
rate by adding the following line to STARTUP.NCF:
SET MAXIMUM INTERRUPT EVENTS = 100000
The default setting is 10.
If you have problems loading the driver on multiple adapters and the
initialization fails due to "Insufficient RCBs," increase the number of
buffers allocated to the server by adding the following lines to the
STARTUP.NCF file:
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