Network communications parameters
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♦ The following statement starts a server with a database named asademo,
allowing 200 NetBIOS connections.
dbsrv7 -x netbios(sessions=200) asademo.db
TDS parameter
TCP/IP, NamedPipes. Server side only.
To disallow TDS connections to a database server, set TDS to NO. If you
want to ensure that only encrypted connections are made to your server,
these port options are the only way to disallow TDS connections.
YES
♦ The following command starts a database server using the TCP/IP
protocol, but disallowing connections from Open Client or jConnect
applications.
dbsrv7 -x tcpip(TDS=NO) ...
Threads parameter
IPX (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT)
THREADS specifies the number of threads that are used for reading network
communications. Integers from one to ten are allowed. It has been found that
two threads produces good performance, but the option is provided as a
performance parameter that you can tune.
2
♦ The following command starts a database server to use the IPX protocol
only, using three threads.
dbsrv7 -x ipx(threads=3) c:\asa7\asademo.db
ThreadStats parameter [STATS]
IPX (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT only)
This option creates a file into which IPX thread statistics are written.
Currently, the only statistic written to the file is the number of packets
received by each executing IPX thread.
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