Installation guide

Building a Simple Network Page 2-3
AlphaNET Installation Guide, Revision 05
Figure 1. Two Computer Network Configuration
3. Now we have two computers with all the hardware and software required to create a network
environment. The next step is to define the network.
4. Create a Network Initialization File
The network initialization file contains all the parameters used to define your computer on the network.
Each time the system boots, the computer processes this file and uses the information to initialize your
network device driver.
The file name used for your network initialization file can be any six-character name you like, followed
by a three-character extension. On each of the two computers in our hypothetical network we will create a
file called ETH100.NIN (since we have chosen the number 100 for our network number, and it is an
Ethernet network). The format of this file is shown below: