TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP (Q314053)

• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

SUMMARY

This article defines all of the registry parameters that are used to configure the protocol driver, Tcpip.sys, that implements the standard TCP/IP network protocols.

The TCP/IP protocol suite implementation for Windows XP reads all of its configuration data from the registry. This information is written to the registry by the Network tool in Control Panel as part of the Setup process. Some of this information is also supplied by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Client service if the DHCP Client service is enabled.

The implementation of the protocol suite should perform properly and efficiently in most environments by using only the configuration information that is gathered by DHCP and by the Network tool in Control Panel. Optimal default values for all other configurable aspects of the protocols have been encoded into the drivers.

There may be some unusual circumstances in customer installations where changes to certain default values are appropriate. To handle these cases, optional registry parameters can be created to modify the default behavior of some parts of the protocol drivers.

CAUTION : The Windows XP TCP/IP implementation is largely self-tuning. Adjusting registry parameters without careful study may adversely affect system performance.

MORE INFORMATION

WARNING : Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the"Changing Keys and Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT or Windows 2000, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

To change these parameters, use the following procedure:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
   
   
2. From the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following key:
   
   

   \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

3. Add a value to the key as described in the appropriate entry below by clicking Add Value on the Edit menu, typing the value, and then setting the value type under Data Type .
   
   
4. Click OK .
   
   
5. Quit Registry Editor.
   
   
6. Restart the computer to make the change take effect.
   
   

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Tcpip\Parameters
Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter

Standard Parameters Configurable Using Registry Editor

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: A valid Windows NT file path
Default: %SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\Etc
Description: This parameter specifies the path to the standard Internet database files (HOSTS, LMHOSTS, NETWORKS, PROTOCOLS). It is used by the Windows Sockets interface.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: Forwarding of broadcasts is not supported. This parameter is ignored.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: If this parameter is set to 1 (True), IP will use zeros-broadcasts (0.0.0.0) instead of ones-broadcasts (255.255.255.255). Most systems use ones- broadcasts, but some systems that are derived from BSD implementations use zeros-broadcasts. Systems that use different broadcasts do not interoperate well on the same network.

Optional Parameters Configurable Using Registry Editor

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 forces TCP/IP to transmit ARP queries with source routing enabled on Token Ring networks. By default, the stack transmits ARP queries without source routing first and retries with source routing enabled if no reply was received.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 forces TCP/IP to transmit Ethernet packets using 802.3 SNAP encoding. By default, the stack transmits packets in DIX Ethernet format. It will always receive both formats.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number of
seconds/hops
Valid Range: 1-255
Default: 128 for Windows XP
Description: Specifies the default Time To Live (TTL) value set in the header of outgoing IP packets. The TTL determines the maximum amount of time that an IP packet can live in the network without reaching its destination. It is effectively a limit on the number of routers an IP packet can pass through before being discarded.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False, True)
Default: 1 (True)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 causes TCP to perform Dead Gateway Detection. With this feature enabled, TCP asks IP to change to a backup gateway if it retransmits a segment several times without receiving a response. Backup gateways may be defined in the Advanced section of the TCP/IP configuration dialog in the Network Control Panel.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False, True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 (True) causes TCP to try to detect "Black Hole" routers while doing Path MTU Discovery. A "Black Hole" router does not return ICMP Destination Unreachable messages when it needs to fragment an IP datagram with the Don't Fragment bit set. TCP depends on receiving these messages to perform Path MTU Discovery. With this feature enabled, TCP will try to send segments without the Don't Fragment bit set if several retransmissions of a segment go unacknowledged. If the segment is acknowledged as a result, the MSS will be decreased and the Don't Fragment bit will be set in future packets on the connection. Enabling black hole detection increases the maximum number of retransmissions performed for a given segment.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False, True)
Default: 1 (True)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 (True) causes TCP to attempt to discover the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU or largest packet size) over the path to a remote host. By discovering the Path MTU and limiting TCP segments to this size, TCP can eliminate fragmentation at routers along the path that connect networks with different MTUs. Fragmentation adversely affects TCP throughput and network congestion. Setting this parameter to 0 causes an MTU of 576 bytes to be used for all connections that are not to computers on the local subnet.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number of bytes
Valid Range: network MTU - some reasonable
value smaller than 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 74240 (enough for fifty 1480-byte
packets, rounded to a multiple of 256)
Description: This parameter determines how much memory IP allocates to store packet data in the router packet queue. When this buffer space is filled, the router begins discarding packets at random from its queue. Packet queue data buffers are 256 bytes in length, so the value of this parameter should be a multiple of 256. Multiple buffers are chained together for larger packets. The IP header for a packet is stored separately. This parameter is ignored and no buffers are allocated if the IP router is not enabled.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 0,1,2
Default: 2
Description: This parameter determines to what extent the system supports IP multicasting and participates in the Internet Group Management Protocol. At level 0, the system provides no multicast support. At level 1, the system can only send IP multicast packets. At level 2, the system can send IP multicast packets and fully participate in IGMP to receive multicast packets.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 1000 (one second)
Description: This parameter determines the interval separating keepalive retransmissions until a response is received. After a response is received, the delay until the next keepalive transmission is again controlled by the value of KeepAliveTime. The connection will be aborted after the number of retransmissions specified by TcpMaxDataRetransmissions have gone unanswered.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 7,200,000 (two hours)
Description: The parameter controls how often TCP attempts to verify that an idle connection is still intact by sending a keepalive packet. If the remote system is still reachable and functioning, it acknowledges the keepalive transmission. Keepalive packets are not sent by default. An application can enable this feature on a connection.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD Number
Valid Range: 68 - the MTU of the underlying network
Default: 0xFFFFFFFF
Description: This parameter overrides the default Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for a network interface. The MTU is the maximum packet size in bytes that the transport will transmit over the underlying network. The size includes the transport header. Note that an IP datagram can span multiple packets. Values larger than the default for the underlying network will result in the transport's using the network default MTU. Values smaller than 68 will result in the tranport's using an MTU of 68.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD Number
Valid Range: 1 - some reasonable value
smaller than 0xFFFFFFFF Default: 50
Description: This parameter determines the number of IP packet headers allocated for the router packet queue. When all headers are in use, the router begins to discard packets at random from the queue. This value should be at least as large as the ForwardBufferMemory value divided by the maximum IP data size of the networks connected to the router. It should be no larger than the ForwardBufferMemory value divided by 256, since at least 256 bytes of forward buffer memory are used for each packet. The optimal number of forward packets for a given ForwardBufferMemory size depends on the type of traffic carried on the network and will be somewhere between these two values. This parameter is ignored and no headers are allocated if the router is not enabled.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 3
Description: This parameter determines the number of times that TCP retransmits a connect request (SYN) before aborting the attempt. The retransmission timeout is doubled with each successive retransmission in a given connect attempt. The initial timeout value is three seconds.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 5
Description: This parameter controls the number of times that TCP retransmits an individual data segment (non connect segment) before aborting the connection. The retransmission timeout is doubled with each successive retransmission on a connection. It is reset when responses resume. The base timeout value is dynamically determined by the measured round-trip time on the connection.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 0 - 0xfffffe
Default: 0xfffffe
Description: This parameter limits the maximum number of connections that TCP can have open simultaneously.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in seconds
Valid Range: 30-300 (decimal)
Default: 0xF0 (240 decimal)
Description: This parameter determines the length of time that a connection stays in the TIME_WAIT state when being closed. While a connection is in the TIME_WAIT state, the socket pair cannot be re- used. This is also known as the "2MSL" state, as by RFC the value should be twice the maximum segment lifetime on the network. See RFC793 for further details.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0,1 (False, True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: This parameter determines whether TCP uses the RFC 1122 specification for urgent data or the mode used by BSD-derived systems. The two mechanisms interpret the urgent pointer in the TCP header and the length of the urgent data differently. They are not interoperable. Windows XP defaults to BSD mode.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number of bytes
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFF
Default: The smaller of 0xFFFF
OR
(The larger of four times the maximum TCP data size on the network
OR
8192 rounded up to an even multiple of the network TCP data size.)
The default is 8760 for Ethernet.
Description: This parameter determines the maximum TCP receive window size offered by the system. The receive window specifies the number of bytes a sender can transmit without receiving an acknowledgment. In general, larger receive windows will improve performance over high (delay * bandwidth) networks. For highest efficiency, the receive window should be an even multiple of the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS).

Parameters Configurable from the Properties of a Network Connection

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_MULTI_SZ - List of dotted decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP addresses
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the list of gateways to be used to route packets not destined for a subnet that the computer is directly connected to, and for which a more specific route does not exist. This parameter, if it has a valid value, overrides the DhcpDefaultGateway parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: Any valid DNS domain name
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the DNS domain name of the system. It is used by the Windows Sockets interface.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: If this parameter is set to 1 (True), the DHCP client service will attempt to configure the first IP interface on the adapter using DHCP.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: Any valid DNS hostname
Default: The computername of the system
Description: This parameter specifies the DNS hostname of the system that will be returned by the hostname command.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_MULTI_SZ - List of dotted- decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP addresses
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the IP addresses of the IP interfaces to be bound to the adapter. If the first address in the list is 0.0.0.0, the primary interface on the adapter will be configured from DHCP. A system with more than one IP interface for an adapter is called "logically multihomed." There must be a valid subnet mask value in the SubnetMask parameter for each IP address that is specified in this parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: Setting this parameter to 1 (True) causes the system to route IP packets between the networks that it is connected to.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - A space delimited list of dotted decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP address
Default: None (Blank)
Description: This parameter specifies the DNS name servers to be queried by Windows Sockets to resolve names.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Delimited list of DNS domain name suffixes
Valid Range: Any set of valid DNS domain name suffixes
Valid Range: Any set of valid DNS domain name suffixes
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies a list of domain name suffixes to append to a name to be resolved by the DNS if resolution of the unadorned name fails. By default, the value of the Domain parameter is appended only. This parameter is used by the Windows Sockets interface.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_MULTI_SZ - List of dotted decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP addresses.
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the subnet masks to be used with the IP interfaces bound to the adapter. If the first mask in the list is 0.0.0.0, the primary interface on the adapter will be configured by DHCP. There must be a valid subnet mask value in this parameter for each IP address that is specified in the IPAddress parameter.

Non-Configurable Parameters

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_MULTI_SZ - List of dotted decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP addresses
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the list of default gateways to be used to route packets not destined for a subnet that the computer is directly connected to, and for which a more specific route does not exist. This parameter is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. This parameter is overridden by a valid DefaultGateway parameter value.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address
Valid Range: Any valid IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the DHCP-configured IP address for the interface. If the IPAddress parameter contains a first value other than 0.0.0.0, that value will override this parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - A space delimited list of dotted decimal IP addresses
Valid Range: Any set of valid IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the DNS name servers to be queried by Windows Sockets to resolve names. It is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. If the NameServer parameter has a valid value, that value will override this parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address
Valid Range: Any valid IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the IP address of the DHCP server that granted the lease on the IP address in the DhcpIPAddress parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP subnet mask
Valid Range: Any subnet mask that is valid for the configured IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the DHCP-configured subnet mask for the address that is specified in the DhcpIPAddress parameter.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is written by the TCP/IP driver for use by the DHCP client service.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in seconds
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is used by the DHCP client service to store the time (in seconds) that the lease on the IP address for this adapter is valid for.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Absolute time in seconds since midnight of 1/1/70
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is used by the DHCP client service to store the time at which the lease on the IP address for this adapter was obtained.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Absolute time in seconds since midnight of 1/1/70
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is used by the DHCP client service to store the time at which the lease on the IP address for this adapter will expire.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - NT device name
Valid Range: A legal NT device name
Default: Empty string (Blank)
Description: This parameter is used to direct IP to bind to a different link-layer protocol than the built-in ARP module. The value of the parameter is the name of the Windows NT-based device that IP should bind to. This parameter is used in conjunction with the RAS component, for example.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Absolute time in seconds since midnight of 1/1/70
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is used by the DHCP client service to store the time at which the service will first try to renew the lease on the IP address for the adapter by contacting the server that granted the lease.

Key: Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Absolute time in seconds since midnight of 1/1/70
Valid Range: 1 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: None
Description: This parameter is used by the DHCP client service to store the time at which the service will try to renew the lease on the IP address for the adapter by broadcasting a renewal request. Time T2 should be reached only if the service has been unable to renew the lease with the original server for some reason.

NBT

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Netbt\Parameters
Netbt\Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_ ID for Adapter

Standard Parameters Configurable from Registry Editor

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Count
Valid Range: 1 to 0xFFFF
Default: 3
Description: This value determines the number of times NetBT broadcasts a query for a given name without receiving a response.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 100 to 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 0x2ee ( 750 decimal)
Description: This value determines the time interval between successive broadcast name queries for the same name.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 60000 to 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 0x927c0 ( 600000 milliseconds = 10 minutes)
Description: This value determines the time interval for which names are cached in the remote name table.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - UDP port number
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFF
Default: 0x89
Description: This parameter determines the destination port number to which NetBT sends packets that are related to name service, such as name queries and name registrations to WINS. The Microsoft WINS listens on port 0x89. NetBIOS name servers from other vendors can listen on different ports.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Count
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFF
Default: 3
Description: This value determines the number of times NetBT sends a query to a WINS server for a given name without receiving a response.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 100 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 1500 (1.5 seconds)
Description: This value determines the time interval between successive name queries to WINS for a given name.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 60,000 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 3,600,000 (1 hour)
Description: This value determines the time interval between keepalive transmissions on a session. Setting the value to 0xFFFFFFF disables keepalives.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Valid Range: 1, 2, 3 (Small, Medium, Large)
Default: 1 (Small)
Description: This value determines the size of the name tables that are used to store local and remote names. In general, Small is adequate. If the system is acting as a proxy name server, the value is automatically set to Large to increase the size of the name cache hash table. Hash table buckets are sized as follows: Large: 256 Medium: 128 Small: 16

Optional Parameters Configurable from Registry Editor

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Four byte, little- endian encoded IP address
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: The ones-broadcast address for each network.
Description: This parameter can be used to force NetBT to use a specific address for all broadcast name-related packets. By default, NetBT uses the ones-broadcast address that is appropriate for each net (that is, for a network of 11.101.0.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, the subnet broadcast address would be 11.101.255.255). This parameter would be set, for example, if the network uses the zeros-broadcast address (set by using the UseZeroBroadcast TCP/IP parameter). The appropriate subnet broadcast address would then be 11.101.0.0 in the example above. This parameter would then be set to 0x0b650000. Note that this parameter is global and is used on all subnets that NetBT is bound to.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: If this parameter is set to 1 (True), the proxy name server sends a negative response to a broadcast name registration if the name is already registered with WINS or is in the proxy's local name cache with a different IP address. The hazard of enabling this feature is that it prevents a system from changing its IP address as long as WINS has a mapping for the name. For this reason, it is disabled by default.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 960000 - 0xFFFFFFF
Default: 960000 (16 minutes)
Description: This parameter specifies the initial refresh timeout used by NBT during name registration. NBT tries to contact the WINS servers at 1/8th of this time interval when it is first registering names. When it receives a successful registration response, that response contains the new refresh interval to use.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 1000 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 6000 (6 seconds)
Description: This parameter specifies the timeout value for LMHOSTS and DNS name queries. The timer has a granularity of the timeout value, so the actual timeout could be as much as twice the value.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Count of bytes
Valid Range: 0 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 0x20000 (128 Kb)
Description: This parameter specifies the maximum amount of memory that NetBT dynamically allocates for all outstanding datagram sends. After this limit is reached, further sends will fail due to insufficient resources.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 1,2,4,8 (B-node, P-node, M-node, H-node)
Default: 1 or 8 based on the WINS server configuration
Description: This parameter determines what methods NetBT uses to register and resolve names. A B-node system uses broadcasts. A P-node system uses only point- to-point name queries to a name server (WINS). An M-node system broadcasts first, and then queries the name server. An H-node system queries the name server first, and then broadcasts. Resolution through LMHOSTS and/or DNS, if enabled, follows these methods. If this key is present, it will override the DhcpNodeType key. If neither key is present, the system defaults to B-node if there are no WINS servers configured for the network. The system defaults to H-node if there is at least one WINS server configured.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: This parameter applies to a multihomed host only. If it is set to 1 (True), NetBT will randomly choose the IP address to put in a name query response from all of its bound interfaces. Usually, the response contains the address of the interface that the query arrived on. This feature would be used by a server with two interfaces on the same network for load balancing.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 8, 9
Default: 8
Description: This parameter forces NetBT to use a specific opcode in name refresh packets. The specification for the NetBT protocol is somewhat ambiguous in this area. Although the default of 8 that is used by Microsoft implementations appears to be the intended value, some other implementations, such as those by Ungermann-Bass, use the value 9. Two implementations must use the same opcode to interoperate.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: This parameter applies to a multihomed host only. If this parameter is set to 1 (True), NBT will only supply an IP address from one of its bound interfaces in name query responses. By default, the addresses of all bound interfaces are included.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Time in milliseconds
Valid Range: 1000 - 0xFFFFFFFF
Default: 15,000 ( 15 seconds)
Description: This parameter determines the amount of time NBT waits before again trying to use WINS after it fails to contact any WINS server. This feature primarily allows computers that are temporarily disconnected from the network, such as laptops, to proceed through boot processing without waiting to time out each WINS name registration or query individually.

Parameters Configurable from the Connection Properties

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: If this value is set to 1 (True), NBT queries the DNS for names that cannot be resolved by WINS, broadcast, or the LMHOSTS file.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 1 (True)
Description: If this value is set to 1 (True), NBT searches the LMHOSTS file, if it exists, for names that cannot be resolved by WINS or broadcast. By default, there is no LMHOSTS file database directory (specified by Tcpip\Parameters\DatabasePath), so no action will be taken. This value is written by the Advanced TCP/IP configuration under the Network tool in Control Panel.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean
Valid Range: 0 or 1 (False or True)
Default: 0 (False)
Description: If this value is set to 1 (True), the system acts as a proxy name server for the networks that NBT is bound to. A proxy name server answers broadcast queries for names that it has resolved through WINS. A proxy name server allows a network of B-node implementations to connect to servers on other subnets that are registered with WINS.

Key: Netbt\Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address (i.e. 11.101.1.200)
Valid Range: Any valid IP address
Default: blank ( no address )
Description: This parameter specifies the IP address of the primary WINS server. If this parameter contains a valid value, it overrides the DHCP parameter of the same name.

Key: Netbt\Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address (i.e. 11.101.1.200)
Valid Range: Any valid IP address.
Default: blank ( no address )
Description: This parameter specifies the IP address of the backup WINS server. If this parameter contains a valid value, it overrides the DHCP parameter of the same name.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: Any valid DNS domain name consisting of two dot-separated parts, or a "*".
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the NetBIOS name scope for the node. This value must not begin with a period. If this parameter contains a valid value, it will override the DHCP parameter of the same name. A blank value (empty string) will be ignored. Setting this parameter to the value "*"indicates a null scope and will override the DHCP parameter.

Non-Configurable Parameters

Key: Netbt\Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address (i.e. 11.101.1.200)
Valid Range: Any valid IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the IP address of the primary WINS server. It is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. A valid NameServer value will override this parameter.

Key: Netbt\Parameters\Interfaces\Tcpip_ ID for Adapter
Value Type: REG_SZ - Dotted decimal IP address (i.e. 11.101.1.200)
Valid Range: Any valid IP address
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the IP address of the backup WINS server. It is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. A valid BackupNameServer value will override this parameter.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_DWORD - Number
Valid Range: 1 - 8
Default: 1
Description: This parameter specifies the NBT node type. It is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. A valid NodeType value will override this parameter. See the entry for NodeType for a complete description.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: a dot-separated name string such as "microsoft.com"
Default: None
Description: This parameter specifies the NetBIOS name scope for the node. It is written by the DHCP client service, if enabled. This value must not begin with a period. See the entry for ScopeId for more information.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: _tcp
Default: _tcp
Description: This parameter is used internally by the RPC component. The default value should not be changed.

Key: Netbt\Parameters
Value Type: REG_SZ - Character string
Valid Range: N/A
Default: \Device\
Description: This parameter is used internally during product development. The default value should not be changed.