Below is an explanation of each PROTOCOL.INI parameter in the [HPLAN]
section for the following HP LAN adapter cards:
   
   HP 27240A StarLAN 10 PC Link II
   HP 27241A StarLAN 10 Micro Channel Link
   HP 27247A EtherTwist PC LAN Adapter Card/16


*   HP 27245A EtherTwist PC LAN Adapter Card/8  (Also HP 27267A 6-pack)
*   HP 27246A EtherTwist Micro Channel Adapter Card/16
*   HP 27250A ThinLAN Adapter Card/8
   
*   Use HPLANB NDIS drivers for these cards *
   

The only parameter that must be specified is the "drivername".  Note
that many of these parameters have default values.  A parameter need not be
specified in your PROTOCOL.INI if its default value is satisfactory.

DRIVERNAME
        units:[n/a]
        range:[HPLAN$]
        default:[HPLAN$]

   Identifies the network device driver.

INTERRUPT
        units:[integer]
        range:[2,3,4,5,7]
        default:[7]

   Indicates the current interrupt level configuration of the interface
   card.  For AT backplane only.  Not applicable for MCA backplane.

IOADDRESS
        units:[n/a]
        range:[0x200, 0x240, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x300, 0x320, 0X340]
        default:[0x300]

   Indicates the current I/O address switch block configuration of the
   interface card.  For AT backplane only.  Not applicable for MCA
   backplane.  The IOADDRESS parameters must match the switch setting on the
   interface card.


MAXHWTRANS
        units:[integer]
        range:[2-20]
        default:[8]

   This parameter partitions the card memory into a transmit queue and a
   receive ring buffer. The parameter value specifies the number of full-
   sized transmit packets that can be simultaneously stored in the card
   transmit queue. Each transmit packet consumes 1536 bytes. The remaining
   card memory is used as a receive ring buffer.

   The following cards have 32 Kbytes (32K X 8) of memory:
     HP 27245A EtherTwist PC Adapter Card/8
     HP 27240A StarLAN 10 PC Link II
     HP 27250A ThinLAN Adapter Card

   The following cards have 64 Kbytes (32K X 16) of memory:
     HP 27247A EtherTwist PC Adapter Card/16
     HP 27246A EthetTwist Micro Channel Adapter Card/16
     HP 27241A StarLAN 10 Micro Channel Link

   For example, if a 27245A card were configured with MaxHWTrans = 10, 15360
   bytes would be allocated to the transmit queue and 17408 (32768 - 15360)
   would be allocated for the receive ring buffer.

MAXMULTICAST
        units:[integer]
        range:[1-200]
        default:[5]

   This parameter specifies the maximum number of multicast addresses that
   can be simultaneously stored by the driver. Each address consumes 16
   bytes of computer memory.

MAXSWTRANS
        units:[integer]
        range:[1-20]
        default:2

   Occasionally the HPLAN driver will put a transmit packet in a software
   queue before sending it to the card transmit queue. This parameter
   specifies the number of packets that can simultaneously be stored in the
   software queue. Each such packet buffer consumes 144 bytes of computer
   memory.


Default Setting in PROTOCOL.INI

[HPLAN]
        DRIVERNAME = HPLAN$
        INTERRUPT = 3
        IOADDRESS = 0x300
        MAXHWTRANS = 8
        MAXMULTICAST = 5
        MAXSWTRANS = 2



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