
Configuring DLSw Services
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Keepalive Time
The DLSw Keepalive Time parameter ensures that the TCP connection to a
remote router is active. You enable the parameter by specifying a nonzero value.
The Keepalive Time setting determines when to send data into the TCP pipe.
Since only one packet is sufficient to initiate the TCP retransmission procedure,
short intervals (less than 30 seconds) will use additional memory, CPU cycles, and
WAN resources unnecessarily. Low values (such as 1 second) do not significantly
decrease notification time, but significantly affect memory, CPU, and WAN
bandwidth utilization because each “keepalive” sends data into the TCP
connection, awaiting acknowledgment by the remote router.
In busy networks, the DLSw keepalive is not necessary. Frequent traffic for TCP
transmission performs the same function as a keepalive setting. For example,
frequent NetBIOS broadcast traffic functions as a TCP keepalive.
Reject Unconfigured Peers
The Reject Unconfigured Peers parameter allows you to limit the addition of new
DLSw sessions. If you set the parameter to Reject, the router establishes sessions
only with those routers that are defined in the DLSw Peer IP Table. If you set the
parameter to Accept, the router allows new DLSw sessions with any router that
requests a session.
Generally, routers connected to devices that initiate SNA/NetBIOS sessions
(usually routers located at remote sites in a hub configuration) must have a
configured Peer IP Table, allowing a parameter setting of Reject. Routers that
learn about remote locations and devices dynamically (such as central site routers)
do not have a configured Peer IP Table. These routers should have a Reject
Unconfigured Peers parameter setting of Accept.
DLSw Slot Table
Each slot on a Bay Networks router running DLSw acts as an independent data
link switch. You identify each slot by assigning a unique IP address for the slot.
This mapping is done in the DLSw Slot Table. Each entry in the table consists of a
DLSw slot number plus the address of the IP interface that you allocate for that
slot.
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