This option sets the cache age timeout for the BBCM cache. Cache entries that are not refreshed in this amount of time are aged out and removed from the cache.
Valid Values: 2 - 20
Default Value: 5
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This option sets frame filters for bridging.
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This option sets caching parameters that apply to bridging.
Significant characters in name controls how many of the 16 characters in a NetBIOS name are needed to consider it a unique NetBIOS name. Some NetBIOS applications use the 16th character of the NetBIOS name to distinguish between certain entities associated with a single NetBIOS name (for example, print server and file server). In these cases, it is best to specify significant characters in name as 15. This causes any frame in which the first 15 characters of the destination NetBIOS name matches the first 15 characters of the device's NetBIOS name cache entry to be forwarded according to the name cache entry information. Thus multiple NetBIOS names can be represented with a single NetBIOS name cache entry.
This is the amount of time the device considers the address and route for a name cache entry to be the best path to that station. When this timer expires, the device deletes the name cache entry and attempts to discover a new best path for the NetBIOS name.
To determine the best path, the device considers transmission time between nodes on all possible routes connecting those nodes, as well as largest frame size. The device does not consider a path suitable if it cannot accommodate the largest NetBIOS frame that could be transmitted over the path.
The default is 60 seconds. The range is 1.0 to 100000.0 seconds.
Valid Values: 1.0 - 100000.0 seconds
Default Value: 60
When the device receives a Name-Query, Status-Query, or Datagram during the timeout period, it carries out a search based on current NetBIOS name cache information.
If the device receives a duplicate frame after this timer expires, it assumes the previous route is not longer valid and it widens its search. The device forwards the duplicate frame to bridges.
Valid Values: 1.0 - 100.0 seconds
Default Value: 1.5
The device keeps a name that is not referenced in its cache for this length of time before deleting it. If the cache fills up, the device removes entries sooner.
The default is 5000 minutes. The range is 1 to 100000 minutes.
Valid Values: 1 - 100000 minutes
Default Value: 5000
This value is the maximum number of locally-learned entries the device saves in the name cache.
You can lower this value to save device memory. To optimize memory usage, processor usage, and the amount of broadcast traffic, set the number of local name cache entries as close as possible to the total number of NetBIOS stations (servers and clients) that are active on this device's local bridge network.
Valid Values: 100 - 30000
Default Value: 500
This value is the maximum number of remotely-learned entries the device saves in the name cache.
You can lower this value to save device memory. To optimize memory usage, processor usage, and the amount of broadcast traffic, set the number of local name cache entries as close as possible to the total number of NetBIOS stations (servers and clients) that are active on this device's local bridge network.
Valid Values: 100 - 30000
Default Value: 100
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This option sets bridging timeout values.
This value applies only to bridged traffic if duplicate filtering is enabled. During this timeout period, the device filters all duplicate frames it receives.
Zero disables duplicate frame checking.
Valid Values: 0.0 - 100.0 seconds
Default Value: 1.5
This parameter indicates how long a received NetBIOS command frame is saved for duplicate frame and response frame processing. After the timeout expires, the command frame is deleted and the duplicate frame filter timer and reduced search timer associated with it are cancelled. The first duplicate command frame received after the timeout period is treated as the first command frame received. All response frames received after the timeout period are discarded.
Valid Values: 1.0 - 100.0 seconds
Default Value: 5.0
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