Novell Help Librarian Data File Version 1.00 COPYRIGHT (c) 1985 by Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Viewing the List of Nodes While viewing the list press ESC to change the timer values or exit the program and stop this test. The list can easily be looked at with the arrow keys and page keys. The characters under Network are the Network ID if available. The characters under Node are the Physical Node ID if available. The characters under Unique User Information are the characters that were entered at the time the program was started. The Date and Time indicate the last time a packet was received or transmitted by this machine. The asterisk on the right indicates which line is the local information from the machine at which you are looking. Highlighted lines indicate nodes from which this machine has not received a packet within the dead timout period. Press ESC to exit Help and return to the list screen. Page 1 of 1 Options The following timer values are selectable by the user. Broadcast Delay Period: This value is the number of seconds between broadcasts from this station. The default is 15 seconds. Dead Timeout Period: When this station receives a transmission it adds the information about the transmitting station to its display list, including the time that the transmission was received. If another transmission is not received from that station within the dead timeout period the information about the transmitting station is highlighted to indicate that it is probably "dead". The default is 60 seconds. Page 1 of 2 COMCHECK Command Line Arguments All functions of ComCheck are available from the command line like this: >COMCHECK /Bx /Dx nnn... /Bx Broadcast delay time in seconds. /Dx Dead timer value in seconds. x Up to four decimal digits. nnn... Unique user information. The options can be given in any order, with or without spaces between them. Page 2 of 2 Unique User Information This information is included in the broadcast that is made from this station at regular intervals. It must be something that uniquely identifies this station such as location, phone number, etc. This allows duplicate node addresses to be detected. Page 1 of 1