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WINDOWS NT DRIVER

 

 

INSTALLATION

The 3C975 ATMLink NIC driver for file servers running Windows NT provides standards-based ATM LAN emulation connectivity to an ATM network. This permits legacy LAN networking technologies and protocols (such as Ethernet and token ring) to run over an ATM network.

This chapter includes procedures to install and remove the 3C975 ATMLink Windows NT network driver, as well as information about ELAN configuration and resilient links. A basic knowledge of Windows NT server operations and ATM concepts is required.

The term ELAN is often used to denote an LEC in the graphical user interface and in the following procedures.

Driver Installation Overview

The Windows NT driver installation program consists of two parts:

NIC detection, creation of resilient server links, and ELAN allocation

NIC and ELAN configuration

During NIC detection the user designates each detected 3Com 3C975 ATMLink NIC as either an active or a standby NIC (see the section “Resilient Server Links Overview” later in this chapter) and specifies the number of ELANs supported by each active NIC. In the NIC/ELAN configuration portion of the driver installation, the user sets the ATM parameters for all active NICs and ELANs as well as configuration information for standby NICs.

There can be up to four 3Com 3C975 ATMLink NICs installed in a single computer system, with each NIC supporting up to 16 ELANs.

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