Installation guide

132 Installation Guide for Clients
There are several utilities that will assist you in using protocol drivers.
These are:
Load
The load utility is used on MS-DOS workstations to load another
protocol. The load utility can also be used to view a list of protocols
currently loaded into memory.
Unload
The unload utility is used to first break the connection with the
network and then unload the specified protocol.
Netbind
The netbind utility binds protocols that are loaded statically and are
not bound with DPA. Under OS/2, netbind may be used if the
/nobind switch was specified on the ifs= line of the CONFIG.SYS
file.
Addname
The addname utility is a Microsoft TCP/IP utility that enables you to
access the resources of a LAN Manager server that are on another
TCP/IP network accessible through a network gateway. Specifically,
the addname utility temporarily adds entries to your computer’s
memory. These entries are deleted when you unload Microsoft
TCP/IP from memory or reboot your computer.
Ping
The ping utility is a Microsoft TCP/IP utility that provides an easy
way to verify the physical connection to a remote computer, using the
internet control message protocol (ICMP) echo facility. ICMP
consists of ICMP packets, which are part of the internet protocol and
typically are used to report errors in the processing of internet
protocol datagrams. When Microsoft TCP/IP is installed, your
computer can both send and reply to echo requests. The ping utility
sends an echo request to the remote computer. When a remote
computer fails to respond to a network request, it means there has
been a failure at one of several points from the local computer to the
remote computer.
Additional Microsoft TCP/IP utilities are available through Microsoft.
The following sections describe in more detail the protocol drivers
supplied with LAN Manager 2.2.
Microsoft NetBEUI 2.1
Required entries:
• drivername
• bindings