Connection Folder—Telnet Advanced Category

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Connection Folder—Telnet Advanced Category

In the Advanced category, you can set advanced connection parameters for connecting to a Telnet host.

Note:

These options are visible but dimmed when you connect to a session. To be able to set these options, you must disconnect from the session and access the Session Profile dialog box again.

Linemode—Select how and/or whether HostExplorer stores characters in a buffer until you send a carriage return to the host. When enabled, Linemode forces HostExplorer to send characters one line at a time rather than as individual characters.

Note:

Linemode is useful when trying to reduce costs on networks that charge per packet, or when dealing with long network delays.

: Don't Do Linemode—Disables Linemode. By default, this option is selected.

: Always—Enables Linemode continuously.

: During Local Echo—Enables Linemode when the host tells HostExplorer to do the echoing.

: When Not in SGA—Enables Linemode when the host does not Suppress Go Ahead (SGA).

: Local Echo or Not SGA—Enables Linemode when the host tells HostExplorer to do the echoing or when the host does not Suppress Go Ahead (SGA).

: Automatic (RFC Compliant)—Linemode is enabled automatically by the host.

Telnet Echo—Determines how HostExplorer will respond to remote echo negotiation with a Telnet host.

: No—HostExplorer negotiates remote echo with the host and responds without echo.

: Yes—HostExplorer negotiates local echo with the host and responds with echo.

: Automatic—HostExplorer uses Host Commands negotiating the remote echo. By default, this option is selected.

Initiate Option Negotiation—Determines whether HostExplorer negotiates connection options upon establishing a Telnet connection. By default, this option is selected.

Note:

Clearing this option may increase the connection speed to certain hosts.

Set Host Window Size—Determines whether HostExplorer sends a change in the number of rows or columns to the Telnet host. By default, this option is selected.

Note:

This option is useful when using UNIX editors (Jove, VI, and Emacs) because it lets the host adjust control of the cursor in the event that the window size changes.

Send Keep Alive Packets—Sends a message to the host to confirm that the session is still alive after a period of inactivity longer than the Keep Alive Timeout value.

: None—Does not send a Keep Alive packet. This is the default value.

: System—Uses the Windows TCP/IP stack Keep Alive interval.

: Send NOP Packets— Sends a No Operation packet (NOP) after the Keep Alive Timeout value is reached.

: Send Timing Mark Packets—Sends a Timing Mark packet after the Keep Alive Timeout value is reached.

Keep Alive Timeout—Specifies the time interval in minutes to send the Keep Alive packet to the host. This option is only available when the Send NOP Packets or the Send Timing Mark Packets option is selected. The default Keep Alive value is 30 minutes.