3Com 3C319 manual Other Features

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■Promiscuous mode support for the Windows 95 and Windows NT NDIS miniport drivers. In promiscuous mode, the NIC receives and forwards all network packets that arrive, regardless of the node to which they are addressed. Applications such as Microsoft Systems Management Server require the driver to be in promiscuous mode while they run. Promiscuous mode is automatically enabled and controlled by applications that require this feature. No user control is necessary.

■Easy configuration in 3Com mode for highest performance, or IBM mode with legacy IBM drivers

3Com mode provides significant performance improvements by implementing Parallel Tasking architecture. Additionally, 3Com mode improves configuration flexibility by increasing the number

of available IRQ channels to 8 and the number of I/O base addresses to 31. You can install up to six NICs per PC.

IBM mode provides the same configuration options as IBM 16/4 Token Ring adapters: four IRQ channels and two I/O base addresses. You can use either 3Com drivers or IBM drivers in the IBM mode.

■Support for the following PC and network operating systems:

■MS-DOS version 3.2 or later (Microsoft DOS LAN Manager, Banyan VINES DOS workstation, Banyan VINES 386 Server, IBM PC LAN Program, Novell NetWare DOS Requester, IBM DOS LAN Requester)

■NetWare 2.1x or 2.2 (Novell NetWare 286 Server)

■NetWare 3.1x, 4.1x, or later (Novell NetWare 386 Server)

■Windows NT version 3.51 or later

■Windows 95

■Windows for Workgroups

■IBM OS/2 version 2.0 or later (IBM LAN Server)