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Managing SNAplus2 Clients
Managing Win16 Clients
[Servers]
The [Servers] section of the file contains information about SNAplus2
servers that the client can access, as follows:
Server1
Enter an asterisk (*) or a server name:
• To indicate that the client should attempt to find a
server running SNAplus2 by using a UDP broadcast
message to all computers on its TCP/IP subnet (or
on all subnets that it can access, if the client
computer contains more than one LAN adapter
card), specify *.
The client retries the broadcast every 10 seconds,
up to the number of attempts specified by the
broadcast_attempt_count parameter, until it
contacts a server. If the limit specified by
broadcast_attempt_count is reached before a
server has been contacted, the client then tries
using directed messages to one or more named
servers (specified by the following lines of the file).
• In situations where the client cannot reach any
servers using UDP broadcasts, and must use
directed messages, specify the name of the first
server it should try to contact. This applies in the
following cases:
• When the SNAplus2 LAN spans multiple
TCP/IP subnets, and there are no SNAplus2
servers in any TCP/IP subnet that the client can
access using UDP
• When UDP support is not installed on the client.
• In other cases, the use of UDP broadcasts is
optional; to specify that broadcasts should not be
attempted, specify the name of the first server
instead of *.
Server2–Server10
Specify the names of additional SNAplus2 servers that
the client should contact, in order of preference. If the
client has tried to contact a server using a UDP
broadcast (or has tried to contact the server specified in
Server1), but has received no response, it then