.-ORDER--=--FIRST-----. >>-+---------------------+------------------------------------->< | .-FIRST-. | '-ORDER--=--+-------+-' '-NEXT--'
Determines how the network node server list is processed.
- ORDER=FIRST
- Specifies that the EN always attempts to find a network node server from the network node server list starting with the first entry. If the first NN in the list is unavailable, the EN attempts to get the second NN in the list to act as its network node server. If the second NN is also unavailable, the third NN in the list is checked, and so on until an available NN is found. Thus, a prioritized list is created where the most preferred NN server is the first entry in the list, the second most preferred is the second entry in the list, and so on. FIRST is the default order of selection.
- ORDER=NEXT
- Specifies that the EN attempts to find a network node server starting with the next entry after the NN selected the last time the list was used. If the next NN in the list is unavailable, the EN attempts to get the following NN in the list to act as its network node server, and so on until an available NN is found. When the bottom of the list is encountered, the first entry in the list is considered to be the next entry. Thus, NNs are selected in a round-robin manner and no preference is given to one node in the list over another node.