Subj : Dead EchoArea?
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Frank Reid
Date : Sat Apr 12 2003 08:12 pm


>I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of the D-Link switch.  It is a
>KVM switch - run multiple CPUs using only one Keyboard, one Video monitor
>and one Mouse.  It eliminates the desktop clutter of requiring multiple
>keyboards, monitors and mice.

Okay, by "switch" I assumed you meant a network switch versus a KVM.  In this
case, the D-Link KVM has nothing to do with the network architecture, aside
from switching displays/input devices!

It's the SMC router that does the network stuff.  That has one port marked for
connection to the cablemodem, i.e. the 24.* address.  How many other ports are
on this device that can be used for internet network workstations?

>The subnet mask (255.255.255.0) looks to be correct, but the two identical
>192.168.1.1 addresses are ambiguous to me.  Are you meaning that the
>address on the Win2K box and the DOS box must be identical?

Disregard the 192.168.1.* addresses.  Your address space is 192.168.2.1 through
192.168.2.254.  The network address is 192.168.2.0 and the broadcast address is
192.168.2.255.  It sounds like your W2K machine has already been assigned
192.168.2.100, which is fine.  Let's assume your DOS machine will be
192.168.2.150.

>Also, when I did a search for the PROTOCOL.INI file on the W2K box, I
>located 72 occurrences (most of which appear to be some kind of template
>files created by Symantec Ghost) and 3 occurrences on the diskette that
>came with my NIC.  Would you please give me an indication of which folder I
>could expect to locate the "True" PROTOCOL.INI file?

The PROTOCOL.INI will be installed when you install your DOS client.  The DOS
client for MS Networking can be found at:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT/

There you will find two files.  These should be extracted to diskettes and
placed in the A: drive of the DOS machine.  Run the SETUP.EXE on the first
diskette, and it will prompt you through the installation.  You will need the
manufacturer diskette for your network adapter in the DOS machine (which sounds
like a 3Com card, from earlier discussion).

After you're done with that installation, you'll find a directory called C:\NET
which will hold the SYSTEM.INI and PROTOCOL.INI I referred to earlier.

Frank

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