CLI Reference Guide

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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 number
Configures 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 out-of-resource condition,
increase the value for this option.
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
Default 4
Range 1 to 16
Example To specify that two boards can be loaded, you would place
the following lines in your NET.CFG file:
link support
max boards 2