Understanding the NetWare Client Software

The NetWare DOS Requester Architecture

NETX

DOS

NetWare DOS

Requester

DOS

Redirection

Layer

Service

Protocol

Layer

Transport

Protocol

Layer

Figure 2-1

DOS

VLM.EXE

 

AUTO

REDIR

 

 

 

 

C

 

NWP

FIO

PRINT

O

 

 

CACHE

 

N

 

 

FIO

 

 

PBODI

N

NDS RSA BIND LITE

 

 

TRAN

 

 

 

IPXNCP

Other Transport Protocols

NetWare DOS

Requester

NetWare DOS Requester Layers and Modules

DOS Redirection Layer

This layer provides DOS file services through the DOS redirector; its VLM™ program is REDIR.VLM. REDIR performs all the DOS-specific callouts.

Previously, NETX provided its own file services; the NetWare DOS Requester uses the DOS redirector for most file services.

Service Protocol Layer

This layer consists of the following parallel services.

2-6