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C H A P T E R 4

Network Setup Protocol Structures and Data Types

fTSDUSize

The maximum amount of data that packets of this protocol

 

can carry. Must be 586, which is the basic AppleTalk

 

datagram size.

fLoadType

Whether AppleTalk is active. See discussion below for

 

possible values.

fNode

Most recently acquired node number or the fixed node

 

number to use.

fNetwork

Most recently acquired network number or the fixed

 

network number.

fRTMPRequestLimit

Must be 3. This field is ignored by current versions of Open

 

Transport.

fRTMPRequestInterval

The request interval in milliseconds. This field must be 200.

This field is ignored by current versions of Open Transport.

fAddressGenLimit Address generation limit. The default is 250.

fBRCAgingInterval The Best Routing Cache (BRC) aging interval in milliseconds. This field must be 4000. This field is ignored by current versions of Open Transport.

fRTMPAgingInterval The Router Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP) aging interval in milliseconds. This field must be 5000. This field is ignored by current versions of Open Transport.

fMaxAddrTries The maximum number of retries that OT makes when trying to acquire an address. The default is 4096.

fDefaultChecksum When set to TRUE, a checksum is performed on the DDP packet. When set to FALSE, no checksum is performed. The default is FALSE.

fIsFixedNode Set to TRUE when fixed node and network numbers are being used. The default value is FALSE.

fMyZone

The most recently acquired zone.

For a detailed description of DDP, see Inside Macintosh: Networking with Open Transport and Inside AppleTalk, Second edition.

The value of the fLoadType field controls whether AppleTalk is active. The original definition of this field was as an inactivity timeout (in minutes), similar to the inactivity timeout implemented for TCP/IP in current versions of Open Transport.

Before Open Transport 1.0 was released, it was realized that loading and unloading AppleTalk on demand was not possible, so the fLoadType field was

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