Connection Settings

Connection settings define how and in which fashion the DS establishes connections to and accepts connections from other hosts. For more information see Ethernet port and network communications.

Setting	Description
Connection Timeout (CT) setting	Defines connection timeout (in minutes)
Transport Protocol (TP) setting	Defines whether UDP or TCP protocol will be used for data connections
Broadcast UDP (BU) setting	Defines whether DS will accept or reject broadcast UDP datagrams
Link Service Login (TL) setting [V3.24/3.54+]	Enables/disables Link Service login procedure after a TCP data connection is established
Inband Commands (IB) setting	Defines whether inband command passing is enabled or disabled
Data Login (DL) setting	Enables or disables command-phase TCP programming
Routing Mode (RM) setting	Defines whether incoming and/or outgoing data connections are allowed
Source IP Filtering (SF) setting [V3.24/3.54+]	Defines whether the DS will accept incoming data connections from any network host or specific host only
Connection Mode (CM) setting	Defines conditions under which the DS will attempt to establish an outgoing connection to the remote host
Destination IP-address (DI) setting	Defines the IP-address of the destination network host to which the DS will attempt to connect to (by default)
Destination Port Number (DP) setting	Defines the port on the destination network host to which the DS will attempt to connect to (by default)
Notification Destination (ND) setting	Defines which UDP port the DS will send I/O line status change notifications to