Westermo MR Series - Manual (Page 288)

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Confi gure > VXN client 4.101
Datawire’s VXN® protocol acts as a replacement to X.25 and the Layer 2 protocol that X.25 is
carried over. The Westermo unit still uses the X.25 entity to handle VXN sessions for the sake of
convenience.
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Service name:
The name of the Datawire VXN server to use. This is supplied by Datawire.
Primary host name:
The primary hostname to connect to when locating the Datawire VXN servers. Supplied by
Datawire.
Primary port:
TCP port to use in conjunction with the Primary hostname. Supplied by Datawire.
Secondary host name:
Secondary hostname to connect to when locating the Datawire VXN servers. Supplied by
Datawire
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Secondary port:
TCP port to use in conjunction with the Secondary hostname. Supplied by Datawire.
Merchant ID:
Currently a fixed string used by the unit when setting up security associations with the VXN
server. In the future, the Merchant ID will be supplied by the service making the transaction
request (e.g. TPAD), and may be extracted from the transaction itself.
Terminal ID:
Currently a fixed string. In the future, the Terminal ID will be supplied by the service making the
transaction request.
OPNS server name:
The server name to use during OPNS negotiations. This parameter is supplied by Datawire, and
is currently set to “OPNS Server”.
OPNS service name:
The service to be used during OPNS negotiations, which is different to the service used for
trans actions. This parameter is supplied by Datawire, and will usually be “opns.dw”.
Keep socket open between transactions:
When this parameter is set to “No”, the TCP socket will be closed once all outstanding transac-
tions are completed. When this parameter is set to “Yes”, the socket will be left open, however
the server may close the socket if it is inactive for a long time.
Socket connection timeout (s):
This is the maximum time to wait for a connection to the VXN server to be established.
Transaction timeout (s):
This is the maximum time to wait for a transaction to be completed.