Usage: Click the Help button at any time to get online help for the settings in the current tab.
This opens a World Wide Browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, and displays information about the settings.
To close the help display, close the browser as you would any other program. For example, in Windows 95, click the X button at the upper right of the window or choose Exit from the File menu.
With some browsers, a new window will open each time you click the Help button. If this happens, simply close each window when you're done with it.
Finding setting descriptions: At the beginning of each help window is a table of contents for the window. To go information about a particular setting, click the hyperlink (the underlined text in most browsers) for that setting in the contents. To return to the contents, use the control in your browser for going back, such as the Back button in Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 3.0.
Update
Description: Sends configuration settings to the Pipeline.
Usage: Click this button to send the settings shown in the Java-Based Pipeline Configurator to the Pipeline.
These new settings replace the previous settings in the Pipeline. You can use this button at any time; you do not have to enter values for all settings before updating the Pipeline.
Save
Description: Saves configuration settings in a file.
Usage: Click this to save the settings shown in the Java-Based Pipeline Configurator in a file on your computer.
You then use your operating system's facility for specifying a name and location for the file, such as the Save To dialog box in Windows 95.
You can later open a file in which you've saved settings by clicking the Open a Configuration File button in the first window that appears when you run the Java-Based Pipeline Configurator.
You can use this button at any time; you do not have to enter values for all settings before saving settings.
Description: This setting specifies the name of the Pipeline.
Usage: The name can include up to 72 characters. Upper- and lowercase letters are distinguished.
Dependencies: The Pipeline 25-Px sends its name when it connects to your network service provider. The network service provider checks the name and your password when you attempt connect the network. In addition, the name appears in the title bar of the Pipeline Console.
Because the Name setting is used for controlling access, you must type it exactly as your network service provider expects it.
Description: This setting specifies a phone number for your ISDN telephone line. If there are two phone numbers for the line, enter one here and one in Number B.
Usage: The phone number can include any of these characters:
You can include a hyphen in the phone number but no spaces.
Dependencies: You get this number from the telephone company providing your ISDN service.
Description: This setting specifies the second phone number for the ISDN telephone line. If there is only one phone number for the line, enter it in Number A.
Usage: The phone number can include any of these characters:
You can include a hyphen in the phone number but no spaces.
Dependencies: You get this number from the telephone company providing your ISDN service.
Description: This setting specifies the ISDN BRI Service Profile Identifier (SPID) associated with Number A. An SPID identifies ISDN equipment connected to your ISDN telephone line. It is typically formed by adding a code to the phone number assigned to the line. Your phone company provides you with one or more SPIDs.
All types of ISDN service except AT&T Custom Point-to-Point can have two phone numbers. The primary phone number (Number A) requires a matching primary SPID (SPID A). The secondary phone number (Number B) requires a matching secondary SPID (SPID B).
Usage: The SPID can contain up to 16 characters.
Dependencies: You must enter a value for SPID A unless you have AT&T Custom Point-To-Point service for your ISDN line.
If the value of Switch Type is AT&T Point-to-Point, there are no SPIDs for your ISDN line.
Description: This setting specifies the ISDN BRI Service Profile Identifier (SPID) associated with Number B. An SPID identifies ISDN equipment connected to your ISDN telephone line. It is typically formed by adding a code to the phone number assigned to the line. Your phone company provides you with one or more SPIDs.
All types of ISDN service except AT&T Custom Point-To-Point can have two phone numbers. The primary phone number (Number A) requires a matching primary SPID (SPID A). The secondary phone number (Number B) requires a matching secondary SPID (SPID B).
Usage: If your ISDN telephone service does not include a second number, leave this blank.
The SPID can contain up to 16 characters.
Dependencies: If the value of Switch Type is AT&T Point-to-Point, there are no SPIDs for your ISDN line.
Description: This setting specifies the network switch and ISDN service type used for your ISDN line.
A switch is the device that connects the calling party to the answering party. The connection is a switched circuit consisting of one or more channels.
Usage: Choose one of the following switch types:
Description: This setting specifies the authentication method that the Pipeline 25-Px requests when initiating a connection to your network service provider. The network service provider determines which authentication method, if any, the connection uses.
Usage: Choose one of the following.
If you choose PAP, the Pipeline 25-Px requests this method for authentication. The network service provider must support PAP.
If you choose CHAP, the Pipeline 25-Px requests this method for authentication. The network service provider must support CHAP.
Dependencies: If you request PAP or CHAP, you must also specify a password using Password in a Connection Profile.
Description: This setting specifies the password that the Pipeline 25-Px sends to your network service provider when making outgoing data calls. If the password specified is not correct, the remote end disconnects the link.
Usage: The password can contain up to 20 characters, and it is case sensitive. Leave the field blank if your network service provider does not require a password.
Description: This setting specifies the local IP address of the Pipeline 25-Px. This is a private address that is visible only to the computer connected to the Pipeline, not to the network to which you connect.
Usage: You should use the default address, 181.100.100.99/16, unless it is impossible to change the IP address of the computer connected to the Pipeline 25-Px.
If you need to change the address, type in the new address. If you do not use the default address, the address must consist of four numbers between 100 and 255 that are separated by periods, as in this example:
Dependencies: When the Pipeline 25-Px connects your computer to the network, the network service provider assigns an IP address to your computer. This address is different from the local IP address of the computer, and it is used only while you are connected to the network. When you receive data from the network, the Pipeline 25-Px automatically converts this address to the local address of your computer. When you send data to the network, the Pipeline 25-Px automatically converts the local address of your computer to the address assigned by the network service provider.
For the Pipeline 25-Px and your computer to communicate, they must be on the same subnet. To ensure this, the last of the four numbers of their local addresses must only differ by only one. For example, if you use the default value for IP Address
you can ensure that the computer is on the same subnet by setting its IP address to
Description: This setting specifies the phone number the Pipeline 25-Px dials to connect to your network service provider.
Usage: The telephone can contain up to 37 characters. It can contain only these characters:
The Pipeline 25-Px sends only the numerical characters when placing a call.
Description: This setting specifies a second telephone number for connecting to the network service provider. This number is dialed automatically if the Pipeline 25-Px could not connect using the telephone number specified by the Dial Number setting.
Usage: The telephone can contain up to 37 characters. It can contain only these characters:
The Pipeline 25-Px sends only the numerical characters when placing a call.
Description: This setting specifies which of your ISDN telephone numbers to use for incoming data calls. If your ISDN service allows data calls on only one telephone number, you can use this setting to specify the telephone number to use.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Dependencies: If the value of the Switch Type setting is AT&T/Point to Point, the Data Usage setting is dimmed. There is only one telephone number for this type of ISDN service, and this telephone number is used for all data calls.
Description: This setting specifies the Service Profile Identifier (SPID) for a telephone or other analog device connected to the Phone 1 jack of the Pipeline 25-Px. For all types of ISDN service that use SPIDs, incoming voice calls to the ISDN telephone number corresponding to this SPID are routed to the Phone 1 jack.
SPIDs identify devices connected to the ISDN line. All types of ISDN service except AT&T Custom Point-to-Point use SPIDs to specify the device that receives an incoming call. When you order ISDN service for a Pipeline 25-Px, you normally get two SPIDs, one for each ISDN telephone number.
Each SPID for a Pipeline 25-Px can identify more than one device. It identifies the Pipeline 25-Px when the corresponding ISDN telephone number is used for an incoming data call. It identifies a telephone or other analog device when the device uses the corresponding ISDN telephone number for an incoming voice call. This sharing of SPIDs is possible because a single ISDN telephone number can handle data or voice, but not both at the same time. The description of the Data Usage setting explains how to use the same SPIDs for data.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Dependencies: AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service does not use SPIDs. Because of this, the Phone 1 Usage setting is dimmed if the Switch Type setting is AT&T Point-to-Point. With AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service, the Pipeline 25-Px can handle only one voice call at a time. An incoming voice call is always routed to the Phone 1 jack.
Description: This setting specifies the Service Profile Identifier (SPID) for a telephone or other analog device connected to the Phone 2 jack of the Pipeline 25-Px. For all types of ISDN service that use SPIDs, incoming voice calls to the ISDN telephone number corresponding to this SPID are routed to the Phone 2 jack.
SPIDs identify devices connected to the ISDN line. All types of ISDN service except AT&T Custom Point-to-Point use SPIDs to specify the device that receives an incoming call. When you order ISDN service for a Pipeline 25-Px, you normally get two SPIDs, one for each ISDN telephone number.
Each SPID for a Pipeline 25-Px can identify more than one device. It identifies the Pipeline 25-Px when the corresponding ISDN telephone number is used for an incoming data call. It identifies a telephone or other analog device when the device uses the corresponding ISDN telephone number for an incoming voice call. This sharing of SPIDs is possible because a single ISDN telephone number can handle data or voice, but not both at the same time. The description of the Data Usage setting explains how to use the same SPIDs for data.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Dependencies: AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service does not use SPIDs. Because of this, the Phone 1 Usage setting is dimmed if the Switch Type setting is AT&T Point-to-Point. With AT&T Custom Point-to-Point service, the Pipeline 25-Px can handle only one voice call at a time. An incoming voice call is always routed to the Phone 1 jack.
Description: This setting forces an outgoing call to use the ISDN telephone number for the phone jack to which the device is connected. It is dimmed unless the value of the Switch Type setting is NTI (Northern Telecom DMS-100 Custom) or NI-1 (National ISDN-1).
When ISDN service is provided by a Northern Telecom DMS-100 switch, each B channel is associated with a particular ISDN telephone number. Because of this, when a B channel is in use, its ISDN telephone number is not available. If Phone Number Binding is set to No, an outgoing call that would normally be made on a particular ISDN telephone number can be made on the other ISDN telephone number if the B channel for the first ISDN telephone number is already in use and the B channel for the second ISDN telephone number is free.
If outgoing calls must come from a particular telephone number to be identified by Caller ID, setting Phone Number Binding to Yes ensures that the call is made using the ISDN telephone number for the phone jack to which the device is connected. If the B channel for this ISDN telephone number is already in use, the call cannot be made.
When Phone Number Binding is dimmed, any call originated at the Pipeline 25-tPx is associated with the phone number set in the Data Usage and Phone Usage settings. If the outgoing call is a data call and Data Usage is set to A+B, the data call will be placed from the first available phone number.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Dependencies: This setting is dimmed unless the value of the Switch Type setting is NTI or NI-1.
Description: This setting specifies the type and speed of the connection your Pipeline 25-Px makes when it calls a network service provider. In most cases, this is either a 64 kilobits per second (Kbps) or a 56 Kbps data connection.
To make a 64 Kbps data connection, all the telephone companies used for the connection must provide 64 Kbps service. If any of them provide only 56 Kbps service, you must specify a 56 Kbps connection.
In a few cases, it is necessary to use a voice connection to carry digital data. This technique, known as Data over Voice (DOV), also can be used when voice calls are less expensive than data calls.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Note: Although 56KR service carries data at the same rate as 56K service, 56KR and 56K are different types of service. If your network service provider requires 56KR service, Data Service must be set to 56KR.
Dependencies: Keep this additional information in mind:
Description: This setting specifies whether to use data compression when connecting to your network service provider. This setting is dimmed if the Pipeline 25-Px does not have the optional data compression hardware module.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Dependencies: For compression to work, both the Pipeline 25-Px and the ISDN device to which it connects must be configured for compression and must specify the same type of compression.
Description: This setting specifies the number of seconds the Pipeline 25-Px waits when the ISDN line is not being used before ending a call.
Usage: Enter a number between 0 and 65535. If you specify 0 (zero), the does not enforce a limit; an idle connection stays open indefinitely.
Description: This setting specifies the maximum number of B channels to be used for a data call.
Description: This checkbox controls whether Plug and Play support for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT is enabled.
Usage: If the Plug and Play box is checked, Plug and Play support is enabled.
When Plug and Play is enabled, Windows 95 or Windows NT detects when the Pipeline 25-Px is connected and automatically configures its networking software to connect to the remote site. If the other Pipeline 25-Px setting values are correct, little or no manual configuration of the Windows networking software is required.
Dependencies: When the Pipeline 25-Px is connected to a computer running Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT and the Plug and Play box is checked, the following occurs:
For example, if the IP address of the Pipeline 25-Px is 200.200.200.100, the IP address of the computer is 200.200.200.101.
This means that DNS requests are sent to the Pipeline 25-Px, which forwards them to the domain name servers, if any, that it finds at the remote site, receives the results, and then passes the results to the computer.
If you connect an Ethernet transceiver to either connector (such as a transceiver that converts Thick Ethernet to Thin Ethernet), choose the connector to which the transceiver is attached.
Usage: Choose one of the following:
Specifies the 10Base-T (unshielded twisted pair) connector
Specifies the Thick Ethernet (10Base-5) connector