Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 1807

Figure 14 Setting Delay and Throughput for Systems Communicating over a 56-KB Satellite Link
NetWare
Workstation
IPX
Internetwork
NetWare
Router
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Internetwork Packet Exchange
Some NetWare protocols, such as SPX, use the ticks value to calculate
retransmit timers. If you are configuring LAN routers that must communicate
over a bridge, a satellite, or both, you probably need to adjust the delay and
throughput values on the routers. Setting the throughput to match the speed of
the link and increasing the link delay prevent SPX retransmissions and
timeouts between systems separated by a slow link.
Figure 14 shows two NetWare LANs joined by two bridges communicating
over a satellite link. To enable the workstations to communicate with the
router and the systems in the IPX internetwork on the other end of the link,
you set the Throughput Override on each router to 56,000—the throughput of
the satellite link—and the Delay Override to 800,000—an arbitrary (but
sufficiently high) value to prevent timeouts over the link.
IMPORTANT:
Although this configuration enables systems on each end of the link
to communicate through the routers, it does not enable direct workstation-to-
workstation communication between the two LANs.
Satellite Links
Bridge
NetWare
LAN
Set Throughput Override to 56,000
Delay Override to 800,000
56-KB
Bridge
NetWare
LAN
and
NetWare
Workstation
IPX
Internetwork
NetWare
Router