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Select a driver to view its associated statistics.
A functioning driver displays packets being sent and received.
To verify that the server is communicating over the network, perform the
following procedure:
1
Set up a NetWare client on a LAN supported by the server to be tested.
2
Log in or map to the server.
If you cannot log in or map to the server, the link is not functional.
If the link is functional, the following message appears on the server console:
Link integrity test for primary slot #XXXXX passed.
Changing NetWare
Driver Configuration
Parameters
You can change parameters from the NetWare installation program Configuration
screen.
lists the parameters shown on the Configuration screen.
Table 3
NetWare Installation Program Configuration Parameters
Parameter
Range of Values
(Defaults in Bold)
Description
Slot Number
All PCI slot numbers
valid to the system
Represents the PCI slot number of the physical
NIC to be configured.
Node Address
Default is
factory-assigned MAC
address.
Leave blank to use factory-assigned default.
Log Message
Level
Error messages logged
Message logging
disabled
Determines which type of messages are
displayed to the system console and the
SYS:\SYSTEM\SYS$LOG.ERR file.
Receive
Checksumming
Enabled
Disabled
NetWare 5.x only. Select
Enabled
to allow the
NIC to perform checksum operations on
incoming packets.
Transmit
Checksumming
Enabled
Disabled
NetWare 5.x only. Select
Enabled
to allow the
NIC to perform checksum operations on
outgoing packets.
SHD
Configuration
Configure SHD
Use default
configuration
Select
Configure
SHD
to change self-healing
driver settings.
Check Level
Basic Level Checking
All Checking is Disabled
Enhanced Level
Checking
Basic and Enhanced
Appears when
Configure SHD
is selected. Basic
Level Checking monitors link beat, DMA FIFOs,
interrupt availability, bus contention errors,
internal NIC subsystems, and recoverable Tx/Rx
errors (CRC, Tx underruns, Rx overruns, late
collisions, jabbers). Enhanced Level Checking
maintains valid data structures and uses more
CPU cycles.
Transmit/Receive
Error Threshold
1–64000
50
Appears when
Configure SHD
is selected.
Specifies threshold levels for Tx/Rx errors. A
failure is reported when the threshold is
exceeded during the sampling period.
Sampling
Window Size
0–64000 packets
0 = disabled
1024
Appears when
Configure SHD
is selected.
Specifies the number of Tx/Rx packets to be
sampled for late collisions, receive overruns,
transmit underruns, jabbers, and bus contention
errors. Automatically ages error count to ensure
that only recent errors are accumulated.
