Dos Networking

[Jouster]

Hi, I have a diskette that I use to connect to a NT Server from dos and all is is fine. Now my problem is I have two network cards installed (same kind) and I want to specify which one to connect. I thought it might be a setting in the protocol or system.ini file but I couldn't find any info.

Thanks for any help,

Rick

 

[browolf]

i got a multihomed pc like that. And have used network boot disks in the past. i think I just fiddled about until i figured out which one it picks up first and then made sure that one was plugged into the domain.

It would be pretty handy to specify it on the boot disk. trouble is i still wouldnt know which is which on the back of the pc. ;-)

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[Jouster]

After hours of searching the web I finally found out that you can specify a "SLOT" parameter in the protocol.ini file. The hard part is figuring out which slots your nics are using and which one is which. I found a utility from the vendor I have (Intel) and it would actually tell me the slot parameters available. Then it was easy to figure out which card went to which slot number.

What is the Slot number you ask? I think its where it resides on the PCI Bus. My two were 0x0010 and 0x000E.

So in the protocol.ini I added the following line under the drivername parameter:

SLOT=0x0010

Hope this makes sense and can help someone else out in the future.

Sincerely,
Rick