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Node Name
Use this 16-character field to specify LINCS’ LAT node name. Valid characters are
alphanumeric, dollar sign, period, hyphen, and underscore. The name must be unique on the
LAT network. If the field is left blank, LINCS constructs a Node Name using the letters
VISARA followed by the LAN address.
Node Identification
Use this optional 16-character field to provide additional node identification information.
Valid characters are alphanumeric, dollar sign, period, hyphen, underscore, and spaces.
Solicitation Agent
Toggle to enable or disable the use of the LAT version 5.2 solicitation agent, which responds
to service information requests on behalf of version 5.1 host server nodes.
LAT Host Connections
A valid number of connections is 0 to 128.
LAT Host Connections enable devices attached to LINCS (direct or LAN attached) to
communicate with Ethernet-attached ASCII Host computers. This field indicates the number of
sessions which may be concurrently connected to an ASCII Host running LAT.
Retransmit Count
Use this field to specify the number of times a LAT frame may be retransmitted.
The range is from 1 to 255. The default value is 8.
Keepalive Timer
Use this field to select an interval used to detect lost connections. Choose the number of
seconds desired.
Multicast Timer
This field determines how frequently the service announcement messages are sent out.
Valid range is 10 to 255 seconds. The default is 60 seconds.
Circuit Timer
Use this field to specify the frequency for frames sent from terminal servers to host service
nodes. Toggle choices for the field are: 40, 80, 120, 160, and 200 msec. The default value is
80 msec.
IP Routing Configuration
The following Static IP Routing panel appears if Routing has been selected on the Line
Options / TCP/IP Options panel.