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From: welch@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Arun Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: spp.user.timeout
Message-ID: <8908301458.AA09604@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 89 14:58:52 GMT
References: <EHO.89Aug29173229@word.Princeton.EDU>
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[We took a power hit as I was sending this out, hope it makes it]

SPP is the Sequenced Packet Protocol, part of the XNS suite.  It
provides a reliable transmission protocol, and corresponds to the TCP
protocol in the TCP/IP suite. My guess is that variable sets the time
that the system waits for an ACK before it assumes that the packet got
dropped somewhere enroute and sends another one. If so, mucking with
it will affect your network behaviour, by sending more duplicates if
it's lowered, or waiting longer if it's raised. If you have to cross
many hops between your hosts and you're experiencing timeouts then I'd
raise it, if you're not experiencing any problems I'd leave it alone.

...arun