TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:  TF2036 - nwdiscover patch
DATE:  12OCT95
README FOR:  TF2036
PRODUCT and VERSION:

UnixWare 2.01


Installation Instructions:  

DATATYPE: datastream

1.  Download the tf2036.Z and tf2036.txt files to the /tmp directory
    on your machine.

2.  Read the release notes contained in this file and follow the 
    instuctions to add the package to your system.

3.  Now become root, uncompress the file and add the package to your 
    system using the following commands:

        $ su
        # uncompress /tmp/tf2036.Z
        # pkgadd -d /tmp/tf2036

ENGINEERING RELEASE NOTES
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Title
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PTF2036 - nwdiscover patch

Product And Version
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UnixWare 2.01, UnixWare 2.02.

Abstract
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This patch installs the following updated file:

	/usr/sbin/nwdiscover

Symptom
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This problem only occurred  on an atypical network. This network 
has several servers but only one is the unixware box.

The UnixWare system will hang during the boot if there are enough
SAP/RIP packets that timeout never occurs, but nwdiscover never
gets a reply to its request.

SOLUTION SPECIFICS
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General Description.
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This patch eliminated the system hang problem described above.

New Features.
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None

Software Notes and Recommendations.
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	This PTF can be installed on UnixWare 2.01 and UnixWare 2.02
	systems which have the NetWare Networking (nwnet) package installed.


Testing of the modified software contained in this package has been
conducted only to the extent necessary to confirm that it resolves the
problem(s) stated above ("Symptom").  Such testing consists of
recreating the problem conditions and verifying that the problem no 
longer occurs.  No other testing of this software has been done.

Hardware Notes and Recommendations.
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This PTF is targeted for the i386, i486 and Pentium CPU's.