Installation guide

Chapter 9 Network Device Driver Options 199
IBM PC Network II/A and Baseband/A
Required entry:
• drivername = ibmneta$ or ibmnetan$
This driver is for the following network adapters:
• IBM PC Network II/A
• IBM Baseband/A
The following table summarizes the possible entries and values in the
[ibmneta] section of the LAN Manager PROTOCOL.INI file:
Entry Units Range
Default
drivername ——
ibmneta$ or ibmnetan$
maxmulticast integer 1–1000
10
maxrequests integer 1–400
6
maxtransmits integer 1–142
6
receivebuffers integer 1–400
6
receivebufsize bytes 128–2034
256
Entries in the [ibmneta] section of the LAN Manager PROTOCOL.INI
file have the following meanings:
drivername
Identifies the driver name of the network device driver. The base
portion of the filename, plus a digit when more than one PC Network
II/A or Baseband/A adapter is installed, is the drivername. The
drivername is ibmneta$ for the first PC Network II/A or
Baseband/A adapter, ibmneta2$ for the second, and so on.
maxmulticast
Sets the maximum number of multicast addresses. This entry
configures the size of the multicast address table.
maxrequests
Sets the maximum number of outstanding general requests. This entry
configures the size of the general-request queue.