Siemens V4.0 manual Example of an automatically created interfaces.cfg file, Active=

Configuring Advanced Server for UNIX Configuring NetBIOS

Example of an automatically created interfaces.cfg file:

#

#NBRFC configuration file

#Created: Fri Sep 19 09:31:07 1997

[et0]

active=yes

used_by_wins=yes ip_addr=default brdcast_addr=default

#brdcast_list=

netmask=default

[madge0]

active=yes used_by_wins=no ip_addr=default brdcast_addr=default

#brdcast_list= netmask=default

The meaning of the keywords in a section is the following:

active=

Advanced Server for UNIX NetBIOS supports the concept of active and inactive inter- faces. NetBIOS will use only active interfaces to send broadcasts and will only use the IP address of active interfaces. If you do not want Advanced Server for UNIX NetBIOS to use a certain interface, mark it with an active=no entry.

Note however, that you cannot prevent NetBIOS from sending and receiving packets over an inactive interface which is UP in the sense of ifconfig(1M), because in general it is up to the lower network layers to decide which interface is to be used.

If all interfaces are deactivated (i.e. have the entry active=no), the first interface is considered active. If the active= entry is missing, the corresponding network interface is considered active.

You can also use the nbconfig command to dynamically activate or deactivate a precon- figured interface.

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