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- 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
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-
- * 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
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- 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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