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MPR31B; Add-on maintenance patch for MPR 3.1 - TID2915859 (last modified 09JAN1998)
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abstract

MPR31B.EXE is an add-on patch for MPR 3.1. It requires the MPR31A.EXE patch to be installed. Novell recommends that all owners of MultiProtocol Router 3.1 on NetWare versions 4.1 and 3.12 install this patch. If you have IntraNetWare or NetWare 4.11, then install the 4.11 Support Pack 1 (411SP1.EXE) instead; do not install this patch.

installation

NOTE: Users with MPR 3.1 MUST apply MPR31A.EXE first before installing this patch. You can verify this when you load INSTALL.NLM and select Product Options > View/Configure/Remove Install Products. If you also have the WAN Extensions 3.0 product installed, then you must install the WAN31A.EXE patch too. SNA31A.EXE is not a requirement.

 1. Only apply MPR31B.EXE to a server that has MPR 3.1 and MPR31A.EXE already installed. Do NOT apply MPR31B to a MPR 3.0 server.

 2. Backup the server. NOTE: The login script files SYS:SYSTEM\SAMPLE.SCR and SYS:SYSTEM\SAMPLE.LSC are overwritten in this install. Therefore, if you have modified/customized this login script, back it up!

 3. Create a directory named NIAS_PTF under the SYS:SYSTEM directory. It must be named SYS:SYSTEM\NIAS_PTF.

 4. Copy MPR31B.EXE into the NIAS_PTF directory.
Note: If you want to install MPR31B from a diskette, you must volume label the diskette NIAS_PTF.

 5. Run MPR31B.EXE to extract the contents of the patch.

 6. From the server console, load INSTALL.NLM.

 7. Select "Product Options".

 8. On a NetWare 4.1 Server, select "View/Configure/Remove Install Products". (For a NetWare 3.12 server, skip to #9)

 9. Verify that MPR31A.PTF is shown in the INSTALL screen.

 10. If you have WAN Extensions 3.0, then verify that the WAN31A.EXE patch was applied. The following will be displayed: WANEX V3.1 WAN Extensions 3.0 MPR31A.PTF

 11. If NetWare for SAA 2.0 is shown on the list of currently installed products, then complete the following steps. Otherwise, skip to #12.
  
 11a. At the system console, type SEARCH. Make note of the numbers in the path SYS:SYSTEM\NWSAA.
 11b. Type SEARCH DEL <num>, where <num> is the value noted in step 11a.
 11c. Type SEARCH, and make note of the numbers in the path SYS:SYSTEM\COMMEXEC.
 11d. Type SEARCH DEL <num>, where <num> is the value noted in step 11c.
 
      These search paths must be removed before PINSTALL.NLM can be run.
      After you complete the installation of this patch, bringing down
      and restarting the server will restore the search paths.

 12. Press <ins> to install MPR31B.

 13. Tell INSTALL the path to the NIAS_PTF directory: SYS:SYSTEM\NIAS_PTF.

 14. Follow the prompts to install MPR31B.

 15. Down the server and bring it back up.

NIAS_PTF v1.0, NIAS Service Patch will be added to the list of currently installed products.

NOTE: If MPR 3.1 is installed on a server which is also running a version of NetWare Connect 2, lower than release 2.0.28, then use of DHCPD.NLM will cause an abend. Downloading NWC206.EXE, in order to upgrade to release 2.0.30, corrects this problem.

symptoms

1. Changes to the Login Script information (login name and password) in a WAN Call Destination were not saved even when selecting YES at the Save Changes prompt.

2. Special characters like @ or # were not allowed for defining the Local System ID.

3. On systems using Digiboard cards - if the calling routers was configured with a permanent PPP link the server would abend in DMGMT.NLM when the remote router was downed.

4. The Frame Relay Interface option in the FRCON utility displayed an <End of Table> "Smiley face."

5. Under excessive loads, the server may ABEND in WHSMAIO.

6. Loading WHCATCFG.NLM from the system console when INETCFG is already loaded causes Netware 4.1 and Netware 4.11 servers to ABEND.

7. IPXRTR routeless services were not retained if an IPX Default Route was present.

8. On systems with both MPR 3.1 and NWC 2.0, if Netware Connect is started first, then the user runs REINITIALIZE SYSTEM, the server may abend with a message :"ABEND running process CSL Thread."

9. IPX did not support backup calls correctly. "Unrecognized parameter:TARGET" was printed on the system console when an IPX backup call became active.

10. IPXRTR was forwarding SAP packets that advertised an unreachable server (16 hops away) even when the ROUTING=NONE parameter was used.

11. When using export configuration option in INETCFG, the system always copies files to the root directory when a hard drive is selected in the export destination, regardless of the path specified.

12. No checking is done on available disk space when running FLOPPY.EXE from the CD to copy files to diskette.

13. If Enterprise Specific Traps were enabled under INETCFG > Network Interfaces, then the Traps did not show up in PPPCON.

14.The server may abend with a message "ABEND RUNNING PROCESS STATICON UTILITY" when configuring local static services in STATICON.

15. Added new defaults to BUILTINS.CFG:

gopher 70/tcp Gopher
gopher 70/udp Gopher
www-http 80/tcp World Wide Web HTTP
www-http 80/udp World Wide Web HTTP
nntp 119/tcp Network News Transfer Protocol
nntp 119/udp Network News Transfer Protocol
ipx 213/tcp IPX (IP Tunnel/IP Relay)
ipx 213/udp IPX (IP Tunnel/IP Relay)
netware-ip 396/tcp Novell Netware over IP
netware-ip 396/udp Novell Netware over IP

16. PPP Wan connections between intraNetWare systems and MPR 3.1 systems would open successfully, but were unable to traffic network protocol data. The problem was caused by the MPR 3.1 version of PPP using a predictor data compression packet header which was inconsistent with the IETF draft standard.

17. Under some circumstances, the WHSMCAPI adaptation driver would not support the full number of ISDN B channels which were configured. WHSMCAPI now supports up to 128 ISDN B channel connections.

solutions

Apply MPR31B.EXE.

contents

Self-Extracting File Name:  mpr31b.exe

Files Included       Size   Date         Time    Version   Checksum

\
    MPR31B.TXT       9364   10-28-1996   05:32PM
  PINSTALL.HLP       5585   11-15-1995   11:54AM
  PINSTALL.NLM     161904   09-13-1996   01:28PM
   PSCRIPT.DAT       4136   10-09-1996   02:49PM
\IPX
    IPXRTR.NLM     159879   09-23-1996   06:28PM
  IPXRTRNM.NLM      23356   09-10-1996   03:41PM
  STATICON.NLM      57417   10-01-1996   04:56PM
\IPX\NLS4
    IPXRTR.MSG      12050   09-23-1996   05:18PM
  IPXRTRNM.MSG        309   10-01-1996   04:51PM
\IPXGW
     IPXGW.NLM      31005   09-17-1996   05:45PM
\IPXGW\NLS4
     IPXGW.MSG      13212   09-17-1996   05:45PM
\ISDN
  WHSMCAPI.LAN      16162   09-13-1996   03:11PM
\NM
   INETCFG.NLM     157318   09-13-1996   01:34PM
\PPP\SAMPLES
    SAMPLE.LSC        332   07-16-1996   01:48PM
    SAMPLE.SCR        368   07-16-1996   01:30PM
\TCPIP
     TCPIP.NLM     206269   09-23-1996   11:22AM
\TCPIP\NLS4
     TCPIP.MSG      17135   09-23-1996   11:20AM
\UTILSWAN
     DMGMT.NLM      16392   09-10-1996   02:46PM
       WSM.NLM      11088   09-09-1996   04:39PM
\WANNM
    PPPCFG.NLM      49369   09-18-1996   10:20AM
  WHAIOCFG.NLM       8205   10-03-1996   10:49AM
  WHCATCFG.NLM       8822   09-13-1996   03:12PM
\WANNM\NLS4
    PPPCFG.HLP      67426   07-18-1996   04:22PM
    PPPCFG.MSG      18058   09-18-1996   10:20AM
\WHSM
   WHSMAIO.LAN      13674   09-09-1996   03:11PM
\WTSM
     FRCON.NLM      31383   10-03-1996   10:48AM
   FRTRACE.NLM      33155   10-03-1996   10:47AM
    PPPCON.NLM      55051   10-03-1996   10:46AM
    PPPTSM.NLM      77658   09-18-1996   10:19AM
\WTSM\NLS4
    PPPCON.HLP      73932   12-12-1995   03:33PM
    PPPTSM.MSG       5556   09-18-1996   10:19AM
Document Title: MPR31B; Add-on maintenance patch for MPR 3.1
Document ID: 2915859
Creation Date: 29OCT1996
Modified Date: 09JAN1998
Document Revision: 1
Novell Product Class: Connectivity Products
NetWare
Novell Product and Version: NetWare MultiProtocol Router
NetWare 3.12
NetWare 4.1

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