Preface

with the “Warning” icon to the left of this text.

Key Names

Angle brackets surround the name of a key. For example, <Enter> corresponds to the Enter key on your keyboard. <Ctrl>+<c> means hold down the Ctrl key and simultaneously type the letter c (in lowercase, in this case).

NET.CFG File Section Headings and Parameter Settings

NET.CFG section headings and parameter settings are shown in uppercase when used as a reference item and lower case when used in syntax or working examples.

For example:

[Begin example]

NETBIOS VERIFY TIMEOUT specifies how often in (ticks) NetBIOS sends a keep-alive packet to the other side of a session to preserve the session.

If no packets are being exchanged on the NetBIOS session by the software that established the session, NetBIOS sends packets at regular intervals to make sure that the session is still valid.

Syntax

netbios verify timeout number

 

Replace number with a number of ticks.

 

 

Default

54 (approximately 3 seconds)

 

 

Range

4 to 65,535

 

 

Example

To make NetBIOS wait longer before sending a

 

request-for-acknowledgment packet, you could place the

 

following lines in your NET.CFG file:

 

netbios

 

netbios verify timeout 1350

 

 

[End example]

Because interpretation of this file is not case-sensitive, you can type its

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