From: "Bob" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:42:38 -0800
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Seeking help understanding networking
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** Reply to message from "Mark Henigan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:53:44 -0800

> I bought a copy of "Networking for Dummies"
> only to learn that is really was written for
> dummies, i.e., discussed nothing at all about
> more technical issues.  Does anyone know of
> resources that might help me to fill in the
> gaps in my understanding?  Also, does the
> TCP/IP configuration notebook in OS2-eCS
> do nothing more than to enter parameters in
> setup.cmd?   If so, I'd rather work directly
> with setup.cmd.  I get crazed with so many
> different utilities to configure what appear
> to be a relatively few files.  The one thing
> I definitely follow protocol on is using MPTS
> to install adapters and protocols initially.

I bought the first two volumes of "Internetworking with TCP/IP Principles,
Protocols, and Architecture", there are 5 or 6 volumes altogether.  The first
one is the introduction, which I read completly (I never completed reading the
second volume), the volumes 2 onwards are an implementation of a full TCP/IP
program with full source code in the books.

I think the TCP/IP configuration does more than create the setup.cmd.  All of
the commands in the setup.cmd file are in the TCP/IP online help.

Setting up MPTS has been a problem in the past and sometimes MPTS created an
IBMLAN.INI file that would not work (this bit me once).  While trying to fix
the problem I found a web site that described the IBMLAN.INI structure so I
could fix the problem and get things working.  That web site helped me
understand how things went together and I have saved it for future reference in
case it disappears from the net.  I checked and it is still active. 
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/peer/WARPPEER.HTM

I hope this help you a little.

-- 
Robert Blair