It's a great time to be automating our offices we have so many choices. More and more, those choices are going to involve networking our offices. Unfortunately, given so many choices, it's sometimes difficult to decide what to do. You may have heard about the capabilities and possibilities in linking your office PCs together. You may have even been reading up on the subject.
Many magazines specialize in networking.
You may have also found out the limitations of these sources of information. Now, let's assume you have booted MS-DOS without any device drivers, and used MSD to test for free IRQs and ports. Then, you either physically set the jumpers on your network cards, or ran the setup program that came with the cards in order to configure them. Finally, we've paid attention to the Rules in terms of wiring, and installed cabling as per the previous articles. Generally, there are two kinds of diagnostics to perform.