CLI Reference Guide

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Command Line Parameters Reference
Core NetWare Client Software
Core NetWare Client Software
The core NetWare Client software for the DOS and MS Windows
environment are four terminate-and stay-resident (TSR) programs, listed and
described in the following table.
Table 3-1 Explanation of the Core NetWare Client Software
Software Explanation
IPXODI.COM
(Internetwork Packet
Exchange™ Open Data-Link
Interface™)
Delivers requests and replies between a client workstation and the
network.
Handles packet sequencing and acknowledgment for the client-server
connection.
Takes requests that the NetWare DOS Requester™ software has
determined are for the network, “packages” them with transmission
information (such as their destination), and hands them to the LSL™
program.
Supports mobile IPX client workstations. Allows client workstations
to respond to the NetWare Event Service Layer (NESL) software (a
DOS TSR program that provides a means by which programs running
on client workstations can generate or receive event notifications).
Allows IPXODI to detect changes in network connections,
dynamically bind or unbind to new network boards, and autoswitch
between a primary and secondary network board when problems are
detected.
LSL.COM
Link Support Layer™
(LSL)
Puts the packaged requests from the IPXODI driver into the proper
format for transmission on the particular physical network that the
client workstation is running on.
Takes replies for the client workstation from the network (via the
network LAN driver), removes the network-specific information it
has added, and passes the reply to IPXODI.
ODI LAN driver.COM
(example: NE2000™)
Takes requests from the LSL and sends them to the network; receives
replies from the network and passes them to the LSL.
Is specific to the network board installed in your client workstation.