Appendix A. Configuring Advanced User Parameters
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▪ Character string values are case-sensitive; as with Station Manager commands, uppercase parameter
values must be enclosed within a pair of double quotes.
▪ Numeric parameters are entered in decimal or hexadecimal format; hexadecimal values must be
terminated with an 'h' or 'H' character.
▪ IP addressing parameters must be entered in standard dotted decimal format.
▪ Comments in the file must start with a semicolon character. All characters in the same line following a
semicolon are ignored.
▪ Blank lines are ignored.
▪ The maximum line length in the AUP file is 80 characters. Any line, including comments, that exceeds this
length will cause errors in processing.
Example:
The following example sets the station manager password to “system” and the IP time-to-live for point-to-point
Ethernet Global Data exchanges to 4.
AUP_0_1
stpasswd = “system” ; set the password to “system”
gucast_ttl=4 ; set the EGD unicast IP TTL to 4