Microsoft KB Archive/99294

= TCP/IP for Windows for Workgroups Must Load Under MS-DOS =

Article ID: 99294

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006



This article was previously published under Q99294



SUMMARY
This article discusses available Microsoft TCP/IP support for Microsoft Windows for Workgroups if you use a Novell network with both IPX and TCP/IP ODI drivers, and LAN Workplace for MS-DOS to talk to a TCP/IP host.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft TCP/IP is a real-mode protocol so you must load it under MS-DOS. LAN Manager 2.2 ships with WSOCKETS.DLL and WIN_SOCK.DLL, which provide similar APIs for applications that use sockets under Windows.

LAN Manager 2.2 ships with an installer diskette for putting the LAN Manager TCP/IP stack under Windows for Workgroups. Another option is a Novell driver called ODINSUP (ODI under and NDIS up) which allows transports written to NDIS (NDIS UP) to talk with ODI drivers (ODI under). You use the Multiple Link Interface Driver (MLID) from Novell, the Link Support Layer (LSL), and the ODINSUP shim, which translates NDIS to ODI. (NOTE: the MLID + LSL is roughly equivalent to Microsoft's NDIS drivers.)

