Installation guide

210 Installation Guide for Clients
Entries in the [madge] section of the LAN Manager PROTOCOL.INI
file have the following meanings:
autoopen
Indicates whether to provide the openadapter and closeadapter
functions for the protocol. If this parameter is set to yes, these
functions are not made available to the protocol, and the adapter is
opened automatically by the driver at bind time. It is recommended
that you specify autoopen=yes if you are using the network adapter
in a server.
copyalldata
Specifies whether to copy all of the data to be transmitted into the
txbuffer before transmission. Setting this parameter to no allows the
driver to avoid copying the data, which increases performance.
Note If you are using a filing system that uses 386-specific
memory paging, you may not be able to set this parameter to no, due
to the non-contiguous memory blocks the 386 chip can set up.
dmachannel
Specifies a particular DMA channel to be used by the token ring
adapter. This value must match the adapter configuration, or the
driver will fail to load and initialize.
drivername
Identifies the driver name. The drivername is smartnd$ for the first
adapter, smartnd2$ for the second adapter, and so on.
ioaddress
Defines the I/O address of the ringnode that should be used by this
driver. This value is a 4-digit hexadecimal address. If this parameter is
not set, the driver automatically determines the I/O address.
irqnumber
Indicates the interrupt level of the network adapter. This value must
match the adapter settings, or the driver will return an error.
maxframesize
Specifies the size, in bytes, of the maximum frame size of the network
adapter. In most cases, the larger the frame size used, the faster the
system runs. The default MS OS/2 value (4484 bytes) is the maximum
value that can be used at 4MBPS on a 16MBPS network. You can
improve performance by increasing this value up to the maximum.
maxtransmits
Specifies the number of transmit commands that may be queued at
one time by the driver.