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The screen of

Figure 6

offers three case-insensitive options:

R forces an immediate refresh of the screen. Otherwise, the screen refreshes itself

automatically every 10 seconds.

S opens the Setup Screen for configuration (Section

4.2.2

).

C resets all 4 packet counters.

4.2.2 AI-SRVR Configuration

By pressing “S” from the AI-SRVR Statistics Screen, the default AI-SRVR Configuration
Screen
of

Figure 7

appears to allow control of 16 parameters. All fields in the left column

(except Node ID) are modified by pressing the

space bar

. These are:

Function

should be toggled to the desired mode: SERVER or PROXY.

Boot Protocol

is NONE by default, but can be toggled to DHCP.

Hostname

AI-SERVER by default, it can be 32 alpha-numeric or hyphen characters.

Node ID

is 1 by default, but a value from 1

255 can be entered.

Speed

is 2.5Mbs by default, but can be set from 156kbs to 10Mbs. The 7.5Mbs
option is the undocumented "reserved" speed of the COM20022

— but it

is not recommended for use.

Ext Timeout

is STD by default, but can be set to 16X, 8X or 4X.

Recon Timeout is STD by default, but can be set to 64Nodes, 32Nodes or 16Nodes.

Receive All

(promiscuous mode) is ON by default, but can be toggled to OFF.

Figure 7

— AI-SRVR Configuration Screen