### TechNote

Number: 06602-3
Date: April 1994

## Smart II Software: configuring multiple Ringnodes

This TechNote tells you how to organize your SMART.CFG file if you want to configure the Smart II Software on more than one Ringnode in a single computer.

### 1 Parameters

We recommend that you do not change protocol parameters from the defaults unless you have experience of configuring adapters. For full details of the parameters available, see the TechNotes listed in the table below.

    TechNote   Title

    06609      Smart II Software: host parameters
    06610      Smart II Software: card parameters
    06611      Smart II Software: LLC parameters
    06612      Smart II Software: NETBIOS parameters
    06613      Smart II Software: IPX parameters
    06614      Smart II Software: ODI parameters
    06615      Smart II Software: TCP/IP parameters
    06616      Smart II Software: NOVAPI parameters
    06617      Smart II Software: RARPD parameters
    06618      Smart II Software: Configuring for source routing

Note

If you specify protocol parameters that cannot be accommodated, SMART.EXE terminates with an error message.

### 2 The SMART.CFG file: multiple Ringnodes

The syntax of the SMART.CFG file permits you to specify a configuration for more than one Ringnode. Unless you use the IO.LOCATION parameter to apply a configuration to a particular Ringnode (see TechNote 06610), each Ringnode is specified consecutively. The example below illustrates the configuration of two Ringnodes using the SMART.CFG file. The first Ringnode has LLC, IPX, and NETB loaded. The second has ODI loaded and is configured to accept standard token-ring frames. The IO.LOCATION parameter is used to locate the first Ringnode at a higher address than the second.

For each Ringnode you configure, you must include at least one protocol or interface module. Only download IPX onto one Ringnode, LLC and ODI onto a maximum of four Ringnodes, and NETB onto a maximum of two Ringnodes. Only load the TCP/IP suite onto one Ringnode.

    [HOST]             ; Host-specific parameters.
    win=31             ; Each Ringnode set up for Windows 3.1.
    [CARD]             ; Ringnode-specific parameters.
    io.location=1A20   ; Locate Ringnode at 1A20.
    frame.size=4000    ; Maximum frame size is 4000 bytes.
    pio                ; Use PIO if possible.
    [LLC]              ; LLC enabled.
    saps=5             ; 5 service access points available.
    stations=80        ; 80 LLC links available for NetBIOS.
    est=10             ; 10 extra links available for other LLC
                       ; applications to use.
    [IPX]              ; IPX enabled.
    co=20              ; Ringnode to support 20 IPX commands.
    sr=y               ; IPX source routing enabled.
    [NETB]             ; NetBIOS enabled.
    sessions=35        ; 35 NetBIOS sessions available.
    [CARD]             ; Ringnode-specific parameters.
    io.location=0a20   ; Locate Ringnode at address 0A20.
    fs = 512           ; Max frame size is 512 bytes.
    [ODI]              ; ODI enabled.
    frame=token-ring   ; ODI to use standard token-ring frames.
    odi.nsup=Y         ; ODINSUP to be run on top of ODI.SMT.