Routing Information

Routing information for Reality networking is used by the Reality session manager process to establish and maintain connections between Reality databases and other network devices, such as printers.

UNIX

On UNIX, the host file /etc/ROUTE-FILE is used to hold all Reality routing information. This specifies the network protocol - TCP/IP, OSI (full- or null-network), or X.25 - and also specifies whether a particular connection uses character mode or the NEC DDA protocol.

The ROUTE-FILE can include the following types of entry:

Special types of Listening and Destination entry (local loopback) enable connections between two processes on the same host.

For details of the ROUTE-FILE Maintenance Utility, used to set up /etc/ROUTE-FILE entries, refer to The ROUTE-FILE in UNIX-Connect System Administration.

Windows

On Windows, Reality routing information is held in the Registry. This includes the following types of entry:

The information in the registry defines the TCP/IP network connection between two hosts, specifying whether a particular connection uses the DDA protocol or character mode (telnet).

The netadmin utility is used to set up routing entries.