IP/IPX Boot Disk 1.7
Novell Cool Solutions: Cool Tool
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In Brief
Run a DOS Client 32 session over IP or IPX, with support for IDE CDROMs.
Vitals
- Product Categories:
- Novell Client
- Functional Categories:
- Imaging
| Posted: | 13 Jun 2003 |
| File Size: | 1.3MB |
| License: | Free |
| Download: | /coolsolutions/tools/downloads/ip_ipx_boot.zip |
| Publisher: | Jon Gerdes, Steve Willis |
Disclaimer
Please read the note from our friends in legal before using this file.
Details
We have concocted a boot disk which will run up a DOS Client 32 session over IP or IPX. It also has drivers for six different NIC types. Ideal for mixed protocol sites with the usual mish mash of hardware.
| 1.6 | Added support for IDE CDROMs |
| 1.7 | Updated the Intel drivers Updated documentation |
See autoexec.bat for change log. | |
| 1.8 will be based on a Free DOS implementation of some sort, which should allow us to cram more drivers onto this thing. More than one NIC in the box confuses the drivers, we should be able to sort that out soon. | |
Once run up it presents the user with a menu of servers to connect to and operations to perform. We basically use it to "Ghost" PCs to and from servers. If you are using IP, you will want to look at these:
- Write performance on IP-based NCP connection slower than using IPX-based - TID10061307
- TCP Delayed Acknowledgement Explanation - TID10068360
After setting this parameter to OFF (note it is "TCP DELAYED ACK" in NW4.x) Ghost writes to the server are significantly faster. On a 10Mb half duplex connection, uploads went from 6MBs-1 to 80MBs-1 which is comparable to an IPX connection. This parameter is only useful over slow eg dial up links and really ought to be defaulted to OFF.
The whole thing is pretty extensible and easy to configure, simply needing some site specific changes.
The attached includes an image (IMG) file and a copy of rawwritewin to write it to a floppy (a cool tool written by John Newbigin. There's a readme.txt in the root of the disk which lists what changes are needed.
- For your convenience, the following links are provided to tools which perform a similar function to this IP/IPX Boot Disk:
- NetWare Boot Disk (IP/IPX)
- NetWare DOS Client
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Reader Comments
- This is the best boot disk I have ever laid my hands on!!! Good work!!!
- Hands down the best boot disk yet! Thanks for sharing.
- awesome! a lifesaver for Ghost and other dos stuff.
- great, just what I need
- A most excellent utility!!! Fantastic time-saver. Keep up the good work! CUDOS!!!
- One of the most simple to use and complete netware boot discs around
- Life Saver!
- We use this to create bootable CD's, so file size limits are moot. Thanks!
- Killer tool. FYI Tip: If you are going to be working with newer Intel Pro100 cards you will need to get the new ce100b32.lan driver from the Intel in the pronware.exe download to use the card with client32
- Great Disk Please make an IP only Disk....Thanks
- It's just so easy. Jahnese FHW
- finally a working ip boot disk!!