Has anyone ever built an IP DOS Boot disk that can connect to an IP NetWare 5 server? Currently, we use an IPX boot disk with VLM's but when we move to a pure IP environment this will not work.
Thank you, TheLad - your solution, and how it operates in a test environment, will be tried later this week.
If you like, I can keep you posted.
It is hoped that adopting an IP-only approach will enhance the resilience of DOS clients to a brief "interruption to service" outage, as happens, for example, when resources are moved from one node to another node in a NW5 cluster environment. Currently, IPX-only DOS clients require a reboot to reconnect to the relocated resource.
Keep us updated via this post - I am sure other people will be interested in your progress ....
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I found this disk on the Novell site. I tried it and it works... for ethernet. We are using token ring as well and I can't get it to work for token ring. If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate the advice. I mean besides get rid of the token ring.
Oh! becareful of the NIC drivers your are using. I was trying to get and intel onboard NIC to go and I used the latest drivers. Needless to say it didn't work. I had to use the older drivers to work.
I thought I'd share some of the links related to this, especially as I am part-way to getting a working IP-only stack (NLM based) for use in a NW5.1 environment.
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