home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
OS/2 Network Information File | 1992-01-31 | 5.0 KB | 158 lines |
- [IBMTOK]
- Type = NDIS
- Title = "IBM Token-Ring Network Adapters"
- Version = 1.0
- DriverName = IBMTOK$
- Xports = NETBEUI LANDD
- Copyfile = LT2.MSG, LT2H.MSG
-
- [FILE]
- Name = IBMTOK.OS2
- Path = IBMCOM\MACS
-
- [EARLYRELEASE]
- display = "Early release"
- type = none
- default = "no"
- set = "yes","no"
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the early token release option for
- IBM Token-Ring 16/4 network adapter cards. The early token release
- option reduces the average time that another network adapter card
- must wait to gain access to the network. Network adapter cards
- that do not support the early token release option ignore this
- parameter."
-
- [PRIMARY]
- display = "Primary adapter"
- type = none
- default = "yes"
- set = "yes","no"
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter identifies the network adapter card assignment
- if more than one Token-Ring network adapter card resides in the
- workstation. This parameter denotes the first network adapter card.
- Refer to the Alternate Adapter parameter for more information."
-
-
- [ALTERNATE]
- display = "Alternate adapter"
- type = none
- default = "no"
- set = "yes","no"
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter identifies the network adapter card assignment
- if more than one Token-Ring network adapter card resides in the
- workstation. This parameter denotes the second network adapter
- card. Refer to the Primary Adapter parameter for more information."
-
- [NETADDRESS]
- display = "Network adapter address"
- type = hexstring
- strlength = 12
- range = 400000000000-4FFFFFFFFFFF
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter overrides the network address of the network
- adapter card. The value of this parameter is a hexadecimal string of
- 12 digits, as in 400001020304. The address
- must be unique among all other network adapter addresses on the
- network. Specify the network adapter address in IBM Token-Ring
- Network format."
-
- [RAM]
- display = "Shared RAM address"
- type = hexadecimal
- range = A000-F000
- step = 200
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter only applies to Personal Computer AT adapters.
- This parameter specifies the physical RAM location on the
- network adapter card if the default location is not adequate.
- The specified location must not conflict with the address
- of any adapter card configured and installed in the workstation.
- The recommended RAM addresses for this field are X'D800
- for the Primary adapter and X'D400 for the Alternate adapter. Refer to
- your configuration documentation for more information on this parameter."
-
- [MAXTRANSMITS]
- display = "Maximum number of queued transmits"
- type = decimal
- default = "12"
- range = 6-50
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the maximum number of transmit queue
- entries for the network adapter driver. For a server workstation or
- gateway workstation, set this parameter to the result of
- multiplying the Maximum Transmits
- Outstanding parameter against the Maximum Sessions parameter located
- in the NETBIOS protocol."
-
- [RECVBUFS]
- display = "Number of receive buffers"
- type = decimal
- default = "2"
- range = 2-60
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the number of receive buffers. Any
- memory left on the network adapter card after other storage
- requirements have been satisfied is configured as extra receive
- buffers."
-
- [RECVBUFSIZE]
- display = "Receive buffer size"
- type = decimal
- default = "256"
- range = 256-2040
- step = 8
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the length of the data portion of each
- receive buffer in the shared RAM area of the adapter. It does not include
- the 8 bytes overhead needed by the adapter."
- [XMITBUFS]
- display = "Number of adapter transmit buffers"
- type = decimal
- default = "1"
- range = 1-16
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the number of transmit buffers to
- allocate on the network adapter card. Allocating a second transmit
- buffer may improve transmission performance, but it also reduces
- the amount of memory available for storing received packets."
-
- [XMITBUFSIZE]
- display = "Transmit buffer size"
- type = decimal
- range = 256-17952
- step = 8
- optional = yes
- editable = yes
- virtual = no
- help = "This parameter specifies the length of the data portion of each
- transmit buffer in the shared RAM area of the adapter. It does not include
- the 8 bytes overhead needed by the adapter, but includes the entire frame
- that is to be transmitted.
- The value must be a multiple of 8. The maximum size for Token-Ring
- Adapter II, and Token-Ring Adapter /A cards is 2040 bytes. The maximum size
- for 16/4 Adapter and Token-Ring 16/4 Adapter /A cards is 4456 bytes at
- the 4-Mbits/sec (MBPS) adapter setting, and is 17,952 bytes at the
- 16-MBPS setting. If this parameter value is set too high for the
- adapter card, a configuration error occurs."