Network Trace for OS/2
- Turn any OS/2 machine into a network probe.
- Take a trace on any segment in the network, in minutes.
- A software-only, hardware-independent implementation.
      http://www.goldencode.com/ntrace.html

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Source: Gerrit Schoenmaker (g.s.schoenmaker@kader.hobby.nl)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (feedback@warpcast.com)
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As one of the first in Europe the Dutch HCC OS/2 usergroup is very
proud that they have got the opportunity to test the preview version
of Serenity's eComStation (eCSprev 1). The test was done on a brand
new PC with an ABit mainboard with IDE-raidcontroller (normally you
will find that with SCSI) which was equipped with anAthlon 700 CPU
and 128 Mb memory.

Here are some results of this test:

1 Despite of choosing to install the DaniS506 driver during the
install procedure of eCS, still the IBM1S506 driver was installed
finally. We couldn't find anywere on harddisk the Dani drivers, e.g.
DaniS506.ADD and DaniAtapi.FLT.

2 Machine hangs at reboot after using Wisemachine for the first time
at the end of the eCS install. After an other CAD the machine runs
OK.

3 Your password and userid for the LAN were not saved during the
install procedure of eCS. This is probably due to that the string
"PEER" is missing from the IBMLAN.INI file on the line starting with:
"wrkservices = MESSENGER," It has to be "wrkservices =
MESSENGER,PEER" You can choose a new Userid and Password by using UPM
in the SystemSetup folder. At anytime you can logon by means of the
default: password, userid! Maybe you have to start PEER manually by
the command NET START PEER at the eCS prompt!

4 The overall installation of eCS was smooth and without any problem,
even over an existing installation of OS/2 Warp 4.0.

5 Starting a program by dragging a file to the programs object
doesn't work in most cases. So one of the most convenient features of
the workplaceshell is missing. This bug was first introduced into
OS/2 with the kernelrevision at fixpak 13 and it is a great pitty
that it's still there!!

6 It's great to see that JAVA 1.3 installed automatically!

7 It's very important to everyone to get used to the LVM (Logical
Volume Manager). It's not that kind of difficult as long as you keep
in mind that deleting a volume is killing an existing partition that
the volume was assigned to!

8 During installation you can choose to install the Journaling
filesystem. It was promised and its there for free!!!

This completes the first eCS impression of the Dutch OS/2 usergroup.


 
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