2680A/2686A
Users Manual
H-10
Protocol IPX
Bind
EXP16ODI
Protocol
Bind
EXP16ODI
ip_address
198.178.246.101
Link Driver EXP16ODI
Port
300
Frame
Ethernet_802.3
Frame
Ethernet_II
Protocol IPX Ethernet_802.3
This
net.cfg
file describes a hardware driver characteristic for an Intel
EtherExpress 16C hardware card and specifies that the IPX and TCP/IP protocol
stacks should bind with the EtherExpress driver.
TCP/IP Protocol Stack
A protocol stack is a group of interacting programs that implement the various
functions of the network communication protocol. They are usually arranged in a
hierarchy of low to higher level functions, so the collection is called a
stack
.
Windows 95, Windows NT, and later versions of Windows supply a TCP/IP
protocol stack. Novell sells an optional package for NetWare that includes a
TCP/IP stack. TCP/IP protocol packages with included WINSOCK DLLs can also
be purchased from a variety of third-party sources.
The
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) has evolved as a
networking protocol that supports communication among diverse computers and
devices (at U.C. Berkeley there once was a TCP/IP-connected Coke machine). The
TCP/IP protocol can be used to communicate between programs running on many
different computer systems, running under many different operating systems, and
even running on several different physical network types (Ethernet being only one
of the many types supported).
The TCP/IP protocol stack is isolated from the underlying network hardware by a
device driver. Applications use TCP/IP resources via one of the several
Application Programming Interfaces (API) that are commonly supported by
network software vendors. The API used by the 2680 Series software is
WINSOCK. There are also API's for file transfer (FTP) and file sharing (NFS and
others).
You rarely need to know the details of the TCP/IP protocol. In summary, TCP/IP
enables two computer systems to establish a connection that allows data to be
exchanged. Data to be transmitted is broken up into manageable chunks (packets)
by the TCP portion of TCP/IP. TCP also reconstructs the data at the receiving end
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