3Com 3CR990SVR97, 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-TX-95, 3CR990SVR95 manual Adding a Group, Install the NICs

106CHAPTER 5: INSTALLING NETWARE CLIENT AND SERVER DRIVERS

Figure 7 AUTOEXEC.NCF File for One Group of Three NICs

load se load lbrsl

;Define primary NIC slot-frame instances

load 3c990 slot=10001 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p1_802.2 load 3c990 slot=10001 frame=ethernet_ii name=p1_ii

;Define secondary NIC slot-frame instances

load 3c990 slot=10002 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p2_802.2 load 3c990 slot=10002 frame=ethernet_ii name=p2_ii load 3c990 slot=10003 frame=ethernet_802.2 name=p3_802.2 load 3c990 slot=10003 frame=ethernet_ii name=p3_ii

;Bind protocols to primary NIC bind ipx to p1_802.2 net=FF02

bind ip to p1_ii address=192.1.1.1 mask=ff.ff.ff.00

;Create a group with NIC 10001 primary and NICs 10002 and 1003 secondary lbrsl group lb 10001 10002 10003

;To create a resilient server link group without load balancing (for ;use with NICs from manufacturers other than 3Com) use the rsl option: ;lbrsl group rsl 10001 10002 10003

Adding a Group

1Install the NICs.

Follow the procedures in Installing and Connecting the NIC on page 34.

Connect all NICs in the group to the same network.

2Make the following changes to the AUTOEXEC.NCF file:

■Add or verify the LOAD commands for the LAN drivers for all slot-frame instances.

■In each group, load the same protocols and frame types on the primary and all secondary NICs.

■On the primary NIC only, bind a protocol to each slot-frame instance.

■Remove any BIND commands from each secondary NIC.

■For each group, add an LBRSL GROUP command to bind the primary and secondary NICs together. There can be only one LBRSL GROUP command per group, and it must list the primary and all secondary NICs.

Place this command after the LAN driver LOAD commands or the SYS:ETC\INITSYS.NCF command. To specify a load balancing group with resilient