OS/2 LAN Manager 2.00 NDDK: Information About COMTOKR.SYS

ID Number: Q69747

2.00

OS/2

Problems:

I have the OS/2 LAN Manager version 2.00 Network Device Driver Kit

(NDDK) and am working on an Ethernet version of remote boot. The

documentation that comes with the NDDK describes where to put the new

.DLLs that come with the NDDK, but the documentation makes no mention

of replacing the COMTOKR.SYS file that comes with OS/2 LAN Manager

version 2.00. I thought COMTOKR.SYS was only for use on Token-Ring

networks.

Response:

COMTOKR.SYS works similar to a transport stack such as NETBEUI.SYS.

Just as NETBEUI.SYS can be "bound" to either a Token-Ring or Ethernet

MAC driver, so can COMTOKR.SYS.

To bind COMTOKR.SYS to an Ethernet MAC driver, add a BINDINGS keyword

to the [COMTOKR] section of PROTOCOL.INI. Specify the name of the

Ethernet MAC section, just as you would for NetBEUI.

To use the Ethernet .DLLs with COMTOKR.SYS, add them to the

[REMOTEBOOT] section of LANMAN.INI using a RPLx keyword. For example:

RPL1 = ETHNET1.DLL ETHNET2.DLL ETHOEM.DLL

If the Ethernet card is not on NET1, place the network number, minus

1, just after RPLOEM.DLL. Thus, if NET2 is Ethernet, you should use

the following statement:

RPL2 = ETHNET1.DLL ETHNET2.DLL ETHOEM.DLL 1