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Crucial Configuration Relationships

The secret to realizing any particular configuration lies in understanding what relationships need to be specified and how to specify them. The crucial relationships to be defined are:

1. Associating each network board with a matching driver to create a board instance,

2. Associating each board instance with one or more frame types to create logical boards,

3. Associating each protocol stack with the particular logical boards it can use.

For Novell's 16-bit transport software, all of these associations are defined in a special Novell configuration file, NET.CFG. Novell's 32-bit transport software uses a different mechanism for defining board instances and logical boards but retains the use of NET.CFG for most other configuration specifications.

Board instances

Logical boards

Associating protocol stacks with logical boards