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From: pete@tsc.dec.com (Pete Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECnet listen timer problem
Message-ID: <369@tsc.dec.com>
Date: 6 Mar 88 14:37:25 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>Why doesn't the NCP command:
>    SET CIRCUIT circ-name LISTEN TIMER value
>work? NML always responds with an 'unrecogised parameter type, Listen timer'
>error.
> 
>Does anybody out there suffer in the same way? Solutions would be gratefully
>received. It's killing our PAD.
 
ANSWER::

	The listen timer is a multiple of the partners hello timer.  To
	change the listen timer simply increase the value of the hello
	timer for the remote, and restart the circuit..