NET.CFG Options Reference
Link Support Option
NOTE:For the most efficient communication, your link support buffer size should be the same size as the packets that your workstation receives over the network. You might want to set the link support buffer size equal to the largest buffer size that the network boards in your workstation supports.
MAX BOARDS numberConfigures the maximum number of logical boards that the LSL.COM file can manage.
Each LAN driver can use more than one board resources.
If a LAN driver fails to load because of an
The amount of resident memory the LSL.COM file consumes increases with larger MAX BOARD values and decreases with smaller values. Thus, you can conserve some memory by reducing the value to the actual number of boards used by a particular system.
For example, if you had the NE2000.COM file configured to load all possible Ethernet frame types (ETHERNET_II, ETHERNET_802.3, ETHERNET_802.2, and ETHERNET_SNAP), four network board resources would be used. Therefore, to load all four frame types, MAX BOARDS must be set to a value of 4 or higher.
Syntax | max boards number |
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Default | 4 |
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| Range | 1 to 16 |
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Example | To specify that two boards can be loaded, you would place |
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| link support |
| max boards 2 |
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