The settings can be specified using the following format:

[SETTING]=[VALUE]

Example:

KA_ENABLE=0

Specifies the idle time before the keep-alive network probing is initiated. Depends on the KA_ENABLE option being enabled.

Value: Time in seconds.

Default: 5 seconds

Example:

Set the idle time to 10 seconds:

KA_MAXIDLE=10

Specifies the idle time between sending keep-alive network probes. Depends on the KA_ENABLE option being enabled.

Value: Time in seconds.

Default: 2 seconds

Example:

Set the idle time to 4 seconds:

KA_INTERVAL=4

This section describes parameters that can be used in the parallelssettings configuration file.

Specifies the time period during which the transmitted data may remain unacknowledged before the connection is closed. This option is only supported on Linux kernel v2.6.37 and later.

Value: Time in milliseconds

Default: 9000 milliseconds (9 seconds)

Example:

Set the time period to 10 seconds.

USER_TIMEOUT=10000

Parallels Client for Linux network settings can be specified using the configuration file, which can be found at the following location:

~/.config/2X/Client/parallelssettings

The settings are user specific. If a Linux machine is used by multiple users, each user needs to modify his/her own file.

Enable or disable the network keep-alive option. Sends network probes to detect if the network connection is alive.

Value: 1 (Enabled) or 0 (Disabled)

Default: 1 (Enabled)

Example:

Disable network probing:

KA_ENABLE=0

Specifies the number of keep-alive probes to send before closing the connection. Depends on the KA_ENABLE option being enabled.

Value: An integer greater than 0.

Default: 3

Example:

Set the number of probes to 6:

KA_COUNT=6