NET.CFG Options Reference

Protocol SPX Option

MINIMUM SPX RETRIES number

Determines how many unacknowledged transmit requests are allowed before assuming the connection has failed.

SPX applications have two methods of specifying a transmit retry count to SPX:

•The application can specify a retry value at the time of connection.

•If the application doesn’t specify a retry value, SPX uses the configured value setting for the IPX RETRY COUNT parameter (default is 20).

This option is especially useful if an application that uses the SPX protocol is abnormally losing its connections. This might be due to a low value specified in the default retry count in the application or in the IPX RETRY COUNT parameter.

This parameter is supported by IPXODI.COM 2.00 and later.

Syntax

minimum spx retries number

 

Replace number with the minimum number of times

 

unacknowledged transmit requests are allowed

 

before assuming the connection has failed.

 

 

Default

20

 

 

Range

0 to 255

 

 

Example

To set the number of retries to 30, you would place the

 

following lines in your NET.CFG file:

 

protocol spx

 

minimum spx retries 30

 

 

SPX ABORT TIMEOUT number

Specifies how long (in ticks) the SPX protocol waits without receiving any response from the other side of the connection before it terminates the session.

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