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- How to get the Novell Netware Requester for OS/2 and IBM TCP/IP to work
- together on OS/2, without NTS/2, and without really trying...
-
- This file was last modified on 24 May 1993.
-
- This document details how I did it on my system. I'm running the OS/2
- 2.1 March beta, version 2.01 of the Netware Requester, and IBM TCP/IP
- version 1.2.1. I think these instructions will work for other versions
- of OS/2. I'm not at all sure they'll work for other versions of the
- Netware Requester or TCP/IP. Fortunately, the Netware Requester is
- available for FTP from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, in /pub/os2/2_x/network/novell,
- as files wsos21.zip, wsos22.zip, and wsos2d.zip. I also recommend the
- UN37938 CSD level of TCP/IP.
-
- It doesn't matter which order you install that Requester and TCP/IP. On
- the machine I started from scratch on, I installed the Requester first,
- and then TCP/IP, but I've also seen other folks recommend installing
- TCP/IP first. In any case, you need to install both, and configure both
- as though they were the only thing on your system. Before you go any
- further, you need to know the MLID name of your Netware driver; you can
- get this by rebooting, and watching the messages as they go by. The
- driver will identify itself with somehting like "Novell NE2000 MLID
- Driver" and some more text. Note the driver name for later use. You then
- need to update three files on your system. One thing I found out the hard
- way: Do not reboot your machine from when you start modifying the three
- files until you're finished; mine locked up when I did.
-
- The first change is to CONFIG.SYS. You will have a statement that goes
- something like
- DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\MACS\NE2000.OS2
- (the file name will obviously change if you're using something besides an
- NE2000, but it will always be in \IBMCOM\MACS on your boot drive). REMark
- out this statement, and add:
- DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
- (change D:\NETWARE to wherever you installed the Requester). This change
- removes the IBM-supplied network board driver, and installs the
- Novell-supplied communications driver that links the TCP/IP software to
- the Novell driver.
-
- Next, you need to update NET.CFG. This file may have been built when you
- installed the Requester, or you may be getting along fine without one. If
- you don't have one, you'll need to create it; if you do, you'll just need
- to update it. Use the Requester's Install program to help build the file,
- as it supplies example statements you can cut and paste as needed. Here's
- mine, in its entirety (don't key in the comments out to the right!):
- Link Support <=== this section may or may not be
- MemPool 4096 necessary...
- Buffers 8 4188
- Link Driver NE2000 <=== This section specifies settings for
- INT #1 5 your hardware and the link driver.
- Frame Ethernet_802.3 <=== Key point: You MUST have all four
- Frame Ethernet_II of these statements in your file!
- Frame Ethernet_802.2 The ODINSUP driver uses the extra
- Frame Ethernet_SNAP frame types to do its magic.
- Protocol IPX 0 Ethernet_802.3 <=== This statement is needed to set
- Protocol TCPIP 800 Ethernet_II the default IPX frame type.
- Protocol odinsup <=== These two statements tell ODINSUP
- bind NE2000 which driver to talk to.
- Protocol ipx <=== Likewise, these two are for IPX...
- bind NE2000
- Protocol TCPIP <=== ...and this section is for TCP/IP.
- Bind NE2000 All of these are set to talk to the
- ip_address 129.106.9.73 NE2000 board.
- ip_router 129.106.1.9
- tcp_sockets 8
- udp_sockets 8
- raw_sockets 1
- NETWARE REQUESTER <=== This section isn't required, just a
- directory services off performance boost if you're not
- running a Netware 4.x file server.
-
- That takes care of two of three; the third is the PROTOCOL.INI file, which
- lives in \IBMCOM on your boot drive. The modification here is simple.
- There are two sections you're concerned with:
-
- ;*----------------------------------------------*
- ;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
- ;*----------------------------------------------*
-
- [TCPIP_nif]
- DriverName = TCPIP$
- Bindings = NE2000 <=== Note 1
-
- ;*----------------------------------------------*
- ;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
- ;*----------------------------------------------*
-
- [NE2000] <=== Note 2
- ;DriverName = MS2000$
- ;interrupt = 5
- ;iobase = 0x320
-
- This is how my file looks after modification. The key is that the Bindings=
- statement in the protocol section (note 1) points to a name in square
- brackets in the MAC section(note 2); this is how TCP/IP establishes the
- connection between the TCP/IP protocol stack and the NDIS driver. You've
- already replaced the driver when you modified CONFIG.SYS; now, to
- reestablish the connection, you must change the Bindings= to point to the
- driver, and that's done by changing it to the MLID name of the Novell
- driver. Then, change the corresponding name in the MAC section to match,
- using the same MLID name, so that the TCP/IP protocol stack doesn't get
- unhappy when it reads PROTOCOL.INI. You can remove or comment out the
- hardware-specific information, as I've done in my file, since the TCP/IP
- software doesn't talk directly to the hardware any more; leaving it in
- doesn't hurt anything, though, since the driver that would use the
- information is no longer being loaded.
-
- Now, reboot, and enjoy having both Netware and TCP/IP connectivity on
- your system!
-
- I've made copies of my CONFIG.SYS, NET.CFG, and PROTOCOL.INI files, as
- well as this document, available for FTP; they're on cdrom.com as
- ntwrtcp.zip (they'll start out in os2/incoming, but will move, hopefully
- to os2/2_x/network/novell).
-
- Good luck!
-
- Jay Maynard
- Senior Systems Programmer
- University of Texas Houston Health Science Center
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu