Asus PRL-DLS533 User Guide - Page 140

NOTE - If you are performing an initial installation of NetWare 5.x/6.0 and have more than two adapters installed, the install program will NT4 W2K WXP allow you to allocate the actual number of packet receive buffers NNW needed by the adapter. During installation, the RxBuffers value should SCO be set to 32, the minimum number of buffers the driver requires for UNX each adapter. While this setting affects adapter performance, it allows LNX installation of the operating system and up to eight adapters during initial install. Once installation is complete, you need to increase the number of buffers allocated to the driver, as described in Verifying or Modifying Adapter Parameters. 15. After NetWare 5.x/6.0 has been successfully installed, set the minimum packet receive buffers parameter in the startup.ncf file to 1500 for each adapter in the system. Set the maximum packet receive buffers to three times the minimum packet receive buffers. Typically 4 MB of RAM is required per 1000 receive buffers. For more information, see Verifying or Modifying Adapter Parameters. 16. In the autoexec.ncf file, delete the packet receive buffers parameter (RxBuffers=32) in the load statement for this adapter. Deleting the receive buffers phrase from the load statement resets the receive buffers parameter to the default value of 200 for this adapter. NOTE - The server needs to be restarted for the new configuration. Example: The default maximum number of receive buffers for the system is 500; the default minimum is 128. Edit the startup.ncf file to have the following entries. The actual numbers will be a function of the number of adapters in the system. The following is an example for a system with 8 adapters installed: set maximum packet receive buffers = 36000 set minimum packet receive buffers = 12000 ASUS PRL-DLS533 motherboard user guide 5-37