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Networking I.P.B. 2096 2nd March 1992 (JK)
Department Category Implementation
Network Hardware Advisory
Software
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Remote Booting to Novell NetWare with ODI drivers

In order to remote boot onto a Novell NetWare network using ODI drivers (for Apricot on-board Ethernet, 3Com, Western Digital, or other cards), you should be aware of the following issues.....

Firstly, as with 'normal' remote booting, if you are running with DOS 5, you will need to run RPLFIX on the boot image file you generate after having run DOSGEN. See Novell Newsletter Issue 13 for more details. Also (if applicable) see IPB 2086 which explains how to correctly configure a remote booting DOS 5 machine to run with Windows and WINA20.386.

In order to remote boot with an ODI driver, you must run the Novell supplied RPLODI.COM (found in the \DOSODI directory on your WSGEN disk, or on your DOS ODI Workstation disk) after you run LSL, but before you load the LAN driver; i.e.

LSL
RPLODI
82592ODI
IPXODI
TCPIP
TELAPI
NETX

Finally, because NetWare remote booting is done via raw IPX using Ethernet_802.3, you need to ensure that your NET.CFG file defines the frame type ETHERNET_802.3 before any other frame types; i.e.

Link Support
Buffers 8 1568
MemPool 4096
Link Driver 82592ODI
INT #1 10
PORT #1 400
DMA #1 6,7
Frame Ethernet_802.3
Frame Ethernet_II
Protocol IPX 0 Ethernet_802.3
Protocol TCPIP
ip_address 89.89.20.49
ip_netmask 255.0.0.0
tcp_sockets 16
udp_sockets 16
raw_sockets 4
nb_sessions 8
nb_commands 16
nb_adapter 0
nb_domain

If NET.CFG does NOT define the frame types in this order, the remote program load facility will lose communication with the server as soon as the LAN driver (in this case 82592ODI.COM) is loaded.

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