3Com 3CR990-FX-97 manual Installing Multiple NICs, Verifying the PCI Slot Number

Models: 3CR990-FX-97

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Installing and Configuring the NetWare Driver

16Press Esc.

You are prompted to save the changes.

17Press Enter to save the changes.

The configured Protocol to Network Interface Bindings screen appears.

18Press Esc to Exit.

The Main menu appears.

19Restart the server.

20Press Esc to exit from the program.

Installing Multiple NICs

To support more than one NIC in a PC running NetWare, change the AUTOEXEC.NCF file to the following format:

load 3C99X.LAN slot=<slot1> NAME=<name1> FRAME=<frametype1> bind ipx to <name1> net=<net1>

load 3C99X.LAN slot=<slot2> NAME=<name2> FRAME=<frametype2> bind ipx to <name2> net=<net2>

The values <slot1> and <slot2> are the numbers of the PCI slots in which the NICs are physically installed. To view the numbers of these PCI slots, use the 3Com Configuration and Diagnostic program for DOS. See “Verifying the PCI Slot Number” below

for instructions.

The values <name1> and <name2> are unique names assigned to each NIC by your system administrator. The values <name1> and <name 2> must be different.

The frame parameters <frametype1> and <frametype2> can be one of the following:

Ethernet_802.2

Ethernet_802.3

Ethernet_II

Ethernet_SNAP

Make sure the frame type for the server and the workstation is the same. For example, if the server uses Ethernet_802.2, the workstation must also use Ethernet_802.2.

The values <net1> and <net2> are unique numbers assigned by the system administrator to each NIC. Make sure <net1> and <net2> are different numbers.

Refer to the appropriate Novell NetWare manuals for further information.

Verifying the PCI Slot Number

To verify the PCI slot number in which a NIC is installed:

1Boot the NetWare server with the -na option.

This option prevents the AUTOEXEC.NCF file from loading. For example, enter: server -na

2Issue the load command for the NIC LAN driver without a slot parameter. For example, enter:

load sys:\system\3c99x.lan

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