Tcp/ip protocol stack – Fluke NetDAQ 2645A User Manual

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Network Considerations

Network Primer

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While a protocol section might look like the following:

[NETMANAGE]
DRIVERNAME=NETMNG$
BINDINGS=EtherLinkII

These two

protocol.ini

file sections describe a hardware driver characteristic

for a 3COM EtherLink II hardware card and specifies that the NetManage
protocol stack should bind with the EtherLink II driver.

The setup information for ODI drivers is contained in a file called

net.cfg

that

must be in the Novell directory (the driver must be there too). This file contains
sections describing the driver characteristics and the protocols that may be
operating over the driver. For example, a driver characteristic section might look
like the following:

Link Support

Buffers 8 1589
MemPool 4096

Protocol IPX

Bind EXP16ODI

Protocol

Bind EXP16ODI
ip_address 198.178.246.101

Link Driver EXP16ODI

Port 300
Frame Ethernet_802.3
Frame Ethernet_II
Protocol IPX Ethernet_802.3

This

net.cfg

file describes a hardware driver characteristic for an Intel

EtherExpress 16C hardware card and specifies that the IPX and TCP/IP protocol
stacks should bind with the EtherExpress driver.

TCP/IP Protocol Stack

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A protocol stack is a group of interacting programs that implement the various
functions of the network communication protocol. They are usually arranged in a
hierarchy of low to higher level functions, so the collection is called a stack.

Windows 95 and Windows NT supply a TCP/IP protocol stack and you can obtain
TCP/IP software for Windows for Workgroups from Microsoft. On Windows 3.1,
you may need to install Newt or Trumpet. Novell sells an optional package for
NetWare called LAN Workplace for DOS/Windows that includes a TCP/IP stack.

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