Increasing Maximum And Minimum Packet Receive Buffers; Increasing The Maximum Number Of Packet Receive Buffers - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Increasing Maximum and Minimum Packet Receive
Buffers

Increasing the Maximum Number of Packet Receive Buffers

For workstations to send and receive Packet Burst data, you must enable
Packet Burst under the NetWare DOS Requester (for DOS or Windows 3.x) or
under the Novell Client Properties, Advanced Settings (for Windows 95 or
Windows NT).
For the procedures, see the help files associated with your client software.
When Packet Burst-enabled servers or workstations transfer data to servers or
workstations that don't have Packet Burst enabled, the data defaults to normal
NCP mode (one-request/one-response).
Packet receive buffers (also called communication buffers) store incoming
data packets until they can be processed by the server.
The operating system allocates a minimum number of packet receive buffers
as soon as the server boots. The minimum number is specified by the
Minimum Packet Receive Buffers server parameter.
A maximum number of packet receive buffers is specified by the Maximum
Packet Receive Buffers server parameter.
To determine how many buffers the server is currently allocating, refer to the
Packet Receive Buffer value in the General Information window of
MONITOR.
If the server is slowing down and losing workstation connections, it might be
running out of packet receive buffers. In this case, you can increase the
Maximum Number of Packet Receive Buffers.
The General Information window of MONITOR displays the total number of
packet receive buffers that are currently allocated.
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From MONITOR's Available Options, select Server Parameters >
Communications.
A list of Communications Parameters is displayed in the upper window.
The scroll thumb on the right of the window indicates that you can use the
arrow keys to scroll the list.
NOTE:
You can also use the SET command to set comunications parameters at
the server console prompt. See Reference > Utilities Reference > Utilities > SET.
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