Idle Time-out

Applies to Manual and On Demand locations only. Idletime specifies how many minutes a dial out connection to this location can remain idle before the NETServer disconnects. Default is 0 (disable idle time-out). Use the following command:

set location <location name> idletime <2 to 240 minutes>

Note: The idle timer ignores RIP, SAP and keepalive packets, allowing ports to time-out even though these protocols are running.

High Water Mark

This is only used if the Maximum Ports setting equals 2 or more (allowing use of multiple ports on a single connection) and additional modems are available. When the amount of network traffic between the local site and the remote host reaches the number of bytes specified in this field, the NETServer opens another dial-out line to the remote site.

If you configure a small high water mark, the NETServer will use the additional lines whenever they are available. A larger high water mark will cause the NETServer to use other lines only when they are really needed, leaving them free for other uses. Keep in mind the kind of traffic you expect across the link. Light traffic, such as a user Telnet session, will usually only queue a few hundred bytes. File transfers, on the other hand, can easily queue several thousand.

set location <location name> high_water <bytes>

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