CLI Reference Guide

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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.

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.

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