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™
ATMLINK 155 PCI
®
NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS
USER GUIDE
A member of the 3Com family of ATMLink
network interface cards
Part No. 09-1038-000
Published February 1997
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3Com Corporation n 5400 Bayfront Plaza n Santa Clara, California n 95052-8145 © 3Com Corporation, 1997. All rights reserved. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation, or adaptation) without permission from 3Com Corporation. 3Com Corporation reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time to time without obligation on the par
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LIFETIME WARRANTY ® 3Com’s EtherLink®, TokenLink®, TokenLink Velocity™, ™ Fast EtherLink, and FDDILink network interface cards have a Lifetime Warranty. To ensure the very best 3Com service and support, take the time to complete the product registration card. Any defective 3Com adapter will be repaired or replaced, at 3Com’s option, for as long as the adapter resides in its original IBM® Personal Computer, Personal System/2®, or compatible computer (driver software is covered by
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Customers in the countries shown below should send the completed registration card to the appropriate address. Customers in other non-U.S. locations should send the registration card to the U.S. address on the front of the card. n n Asia Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta 3Com Asia Ltd., Marketing Department 3Com Mediterraneo Srl, Room 2506-07, 25/F. Marketing Department Citibank Tower Via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1 Citibank Plaza, Central 20093 Cologno Monze
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CONTENTS ABOUT THIS GUIDE Introduction 1 How to Use This Guide 1 Conventions 2 1 INTRODUCTION Product Features 1-1 Emulated LAN (ELAN) Overview 1-3 Software Descriptions 1-4 Network Driver Description 1-4 Diagnostic Utility Description 1-5 ATMLink Utility Description 1-6 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Installation Overview 2-1 Installing the 3C975 ATMLink NIC 2-1 3 WINDOWS NT DRIVER INSTALLATION Driver Installation Overview 3-
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Driver Installation Summary for Experienced Users 3-5 Before You Begin 3-5 Part One: NIC Detection, Resilient Server Links, and ELAN Allocation 3-6 Part Two: NIC and ELAN Configuration 3-7 Installing the Network Driver 3-8 NIC Detection, Resilient Server Links, and ELAN Allocation 3-8 NIC and ELAN Configuration 3-12 Verifying Driver Installation and Configuration 3-19 Enabling and Disabling ELANs 3-20 Removing an ELAN 3-20 Adding ELANs 3-2
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5 ATMLINK UTILITY Installing and Running the ATMLink Utility for Windows NT 5-1 ATMLink Utility Field Descriptions 5-2 ELAN Information 5-2 NIC Connection Statistics 5-4 NIC Information 5-5 Reset 5-6 Installing and Running the ATMLink Utility for Novell NetWare 5-7 ATMLink Utility Menu Options 5-9 NIC Information 5-9 VCC Statistics 5-10 ELAN Statistics 5-12 Reset NIC 5-13 Quit 5-13 6 DIAGNOSTICS AND TROUBLESHOOTING Overview
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A SPECIFICATIONS Hardware A-1 Network Connections A-2 Standards Compliance A-2 Environment A-2 RJ-45 Connector Pinouts A-3 B TECHNICAL SUPPORT Online Technical Services B-1 3Com Bulletin Board Service B-1 Access by Analog Modem B-1 Access by Digital Modem B-2 World Wide Web Site B-2 3ComForum on CompuServe B-3 3ComFacts Automated Fax Service B-3 Support from Your Network Supplier B-4 Returning Pro
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FIGURES 1-1 3C975-F and 3C975-UTP ATMLink NICs 1-2 2-1 Removing the Expansion Slot Cover 2-2 2-2 3C975-F ATMLink NIC Installed in the Chassis 2-3 2-3 SC Duplex and RJ-45 Connectors 2-4 3-1 Network Settings Window 3-9 3-2 Add Network Adapter 3-9 3-3 Insert Disk Dialog Box 3-9 3-4 Select OEM Option Window 3-10 3-5 NIC Installation Dialog Box 3-10 3-6 NIC Mode Dialog Box 3-11 3-7 Total Number of ELANs Di
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4-7 ELAN Configuration Screen 4-11 4-8 Configuring the TCP/IP Network Interface 4-13 4-9 Selecting the Card Number 4-14 4-10 Prompt to Add Additional LEC 4-18 4-11 Additional Driver Actions Screen (Adding an Additional ELAN) 4-18 4-12 Select a Driver Screen 4-19 4-13 Sample of AUTOEXEC.NCF File 4-23 5-1 ATMLink Utility Windows 5-2 5-2 ELAN Information Window 5-3 5-3 Connection Statistics Window 5-4 5-4 NIC information Windo
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TABLES 1 Notice Icons 2 2 Text Conventions 2 3-1 3C975 ATMLink NIC Installation Configuration Parameters 3-13 4-1 3C975 ATMLink NIC NetWare Install Utility Configuration Parameters 4-11 4-2 NetWare Keywords 4-24 5-1 Windows NT ELAN Information Fields 5-3 5-2 Windows NT Connection Statistics Fields 5-4 5-3 Windows NT NIC Information Fields 5-6 5-4 NetWare NIC Information Fields 5-10 5-5 NetWare VCC Statistics Screen 5-11 5-6 LEC Statistics Fields for NetWare
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ABOUT THIS GUIDE Introduction This user guide describes the installation and configuration ® ™ of the 3Com 3C975-F and 3C975-UTP ATMLink 155 PCI network Interface cards (NICs). The intended audience is the network administrator, network operator, or network hardware installer. Knowledge of Asynchronous Transfer Mode ® ® ® ® (ATM), Microsoft Windows NT and Novell NetWare server operations is required. If the information in the release notes shipped with your product differs from the inform
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2 ABOUT THIS GUIDE Conventions Table 1 and Table 2 list text and icon conventions that are used throughout this guide: Table 1 Notice Icons Icon Type Description Information Note Information notes call attention to important features or instructions. Caution Cautions alert you to personal safety risk, system damage, or loss of data. Warning Warnings alert you to the risk of severe personal injury. Table 2 Text Conventions Convention Description “Enter” vs. “Type” When the word “enter” i
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Conventions 3 Table 2 Text Conventions (continued) Convention Description Text represented as This typeface is used to represent displays that appear screen on your terminal screen, for example: display NetLogin: Text represented as This typeface is used to represent commands that you commands enter, for example: SETDefault !0 -IP NETaddr = 0.0.0.0 Keys When specific keys are referred to in the text, they are called out by their labels, such as “the Return key” or “the Escape key,” or the
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1 INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the hardware and software features ® ™ of the 3Com 3C975 ATMLink 155 PCI network interface card (NIC), hereafter called the 3C975 ATMLink NIC. Product Features The 3Com ATMLink 3C975 NIC is available in two models: the 3C975-F and the 3C975-UTP. The 3C975-F NIC has an SC duplex fiber-optic cable connector for double-strand 62.5/125 m m multimode fiber-optic cable. The 3C975-UTP NIC has an RJ-45 connector and requires Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair
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ATM ATM LINK LINK 1-2 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION n Traffic shaping (user-defined maximum peak rate per ELAN) n Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI) 3.0 service n User-selectable virtual path identifier/virtual circuit identifier (VPI/VCI) range n Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent for NICs ® operating under the Windows NT operating system 3C975-F 3C975-UTP Figure 1-1 3C975-F and 3C975-UTP ATMLink NICs
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Emulated LAN (ELAN) Overview 1-3 Emulated LAN (ELAN) Overview The 3Com ATMLink network driver conforms to the ATM Forum LAN Emulation over ATM Specification 1.0 to interoperate with legacy LAN networks. LAN emulation supports the multicast, broadcast, and address resolution services characteristic of shared media LANs, within the connection-oriented ATM environment. Four devices are defined to provide these LAN emulation services: n LAN Emulation Client (LEC) found on all end stations n LAN
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1-4 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION For more detailed information on LAN emulation and emulated LANs, access the Networking Solutions Center on the 3Com World Wide Web site at www.3com.com. White papers on ATM are found in the Advanced Technology Solutions section. Software Descriptions ™ The following software is contained on the ATMDisk diskettes shipped with the 3C975 ATMLink NIC. ® n Network driver for Microsoft Windows NT, versions 3.51 and 4.0 ® n Network driver and NetWare Loadable Modules
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Software Descriptions 1-5 The NetWare 4.x and 3.12 drivers and Windows NT network drivers support up to four physical NICs per system. Each physical NIC can be configured to support up to 16 LECs. Each LEC operates as a virtual NIC and has a unique MAC address. Only one LEC per NIC is supported in NetWare 3.12. The ATMLink NIC network driver uses switched virtual circuits (SVCs) to establish network connections with up to 4,096 open virtual channel connections (VCCs) supported per system.
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1-6 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ATMLink Utility Description An ATMLink utility for Microsoft Windows NT and for Novell NetWare is shipped on the ATMDisk diskettes. Use the ATMLink utility to display configuration and operating status of all installed ATMLink NICs and ELANs, as well as to reset a NIC. Chapter 5 describes how to use the ATMLink utility.
