CS/2 Netbios Pubs Update and Usage Information



    D0065300: NB Configurable Receive Buffer Size plus STO/RTO

              This DCR (Design Change) is in the cs2nbr00.exe
              product code CS/2 1.3.1. The documentation was
              not in CS/2 1.3.1 because this was originally
              an undocumented feature.  Since many customers
              are now using these start parameters, we are
              providing the documentation here for your usage
              and convenience.


    Update to the NETBIOS REM from 12/15/93 (DCR D0065300):

    CS2NBR00 start parms. To use these, add the keyword and value
    and change the REM's "use start parms" flag to "yes".
    These values get read when the NB REM is started. To have changed
    values take effect, the REM must be stopped and restarted.

    STO    - NETBIOS send timeout. This value gets set on the NCB.CALL
             and NCB.LISTEN commands. It then applies to NCB.SEND_W
             commands for that session. It is in 500 millisecond units, so
             a value of 10 gives a timeout of 5 seconds. If this timeout
             occurs on a NCB.SEND, the session is terminated. The default is
             30 seconds.

    RTO    - NETBIOS receive timeout. Similar to send timeout. The default is
             15 seconds.

    RBUF   - NETBIOS receive buffer size used by the NETBIOS REM. The default
             is the minimum RBUF size of 670 bytes (RWA headers and a user
             data size of 512).  The maximum size is 65,280 bytes.

    NM8CHK - Parm to indicate that the REM should check that incoming CALLs
             have NETBIOS names that are 8 bytes or less. The bytes after the
             8th must be blanks. If this start parm is not used, then the
             REM will not check incoming names to ensure that they are eight
             bytes or less (the current REM behavior, only the first 8 are
             used). Whether the check is done or not, the REM will not use
             more than 8 bytes for a name.

    Example of start parm in CS2NBR00 (NB REM's) ACB:

    STO=20 RTO=20 RBUF=1024 NM8CHK=1

    Gives: send time out of 10 seconds (20 * .5 secs);
           receive timeout of 10 seconds;
           receive buffer size of 1024 bytes;
           and the 8 bytes name check will be used.

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