TCP/IP Link Driver Configuration Guide

Make Connection to Make connection to server
Remote IP Address IP address of remote server to make connection to.
Remote Port Remote IP Port Number. The protocol will use its default value if left blank
Socket Type The protocol will use its default value if left blank
TCP Reliable connection-oriented service
UDP Connectionless datagram
Local Port Should be left at 0 to let the operating system automatically allocate the next unused local port number. When using a non zero local port, Please note that In NT and Windows 2000, TCP does not release a connection until the connection has remained closed for a period specified by the value of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay. The default value is 240 seconds. Set this registry value to 30 seconds.
Mode Primary is selected if left blank.
Primary Always connected.
Hot Standby Always connected. Write will only be executed when all primary has failed.
Standby Connection will only be attempted when all primary or hot standby has failed.
Interface Network interface to use for this connection. Left blank to allow some OS to choose which interface to use. Some OS does not allow this field to be blank.
TTL Time To Live. Setting the TTL to a magical value of 31 will cause the ping to be NOT issued prior to connecting to the Remote IP Address.
Server Wait for incoming connection from clients
Port Local Port number of Server. The protocol will use its default value if left blank
Connection Timeout Maximum time to wait for a response to a ping and to set up a TCP/IP connection.
Heart Beat Timeout A connection is closed if it does not receive a heart beat from its partner within the Timeout period. This feature is disabled if Timeout is set to 0.
Heart Beat Port Number Receive heart beat at this port.  The remote device may transmit heart beat via TCP, UDP, subnet broadcast or multicast. The heart beat can be any message. It the Port Number is zero then any message from that device will be accepted as the heart beat.
BER The Bit Error rate of the media. Set to 0 to disable Reed Solomon Forward Error Correction. The second number is the actual BER used.  The software will dynamically use RS(15,k) to RS(2047,k) depending on the BER, MTBE and frame size. 
MTBE Target Mean time between error based on a continuous transmission rate of 100000 bps.
Corrections (Tx/Rx) Number of error corrected at remote and local node. The SER (Symbol Error rate) is approximately Corrections / (Compression * Total Bytes)
Compression Ratio  (Tx/Rx) Compression ratio of Transmit and Receive data
Compression  GZIP software data compression.
None Do not use compression
Frame Compress at frame level only.
Streaming Streaming compression. Compression information are maintained across frame, this achieve much higher level of compression. The compression information are only reset on timeout.
Total Bytes (Tx/Rx) Total number of bytes transmitted and received
Pre Tx File A file containing data that are normally transmitted. The content of this file is run through the compressor at the beginning of every transmission stream to achieve higher level of compression. The Pre Rx File of the receiver must be the same as the Pre Tx File of the transmitter.
Pre Rx File A file containing data that are normally received. The content of this file is run through the decompressor at the beginning of every receive stream to achieve higher level of compression.
Browse Browse for Pre transmission or receive files.

Note: Windows 95 users, please make sure Winsock 2.0 is installed.

Last updated: 28 April 2009