The url argument specifies the protocol and optionally address where TCF will open a TCP server socket on an available port, typically 1534.
The name is the Locator service peer name and it defaults to 'Simics'.
With the option -log you can specify the agent to log TCF traces in the file specified with option log-file. Option log-file defaults to 'tcf.log'. The flag -log is automatically set if log-file is specified. If "-" is set as log file, logs will be sent to stderr.
With the option log-mode you can specify what TCF traces will be logged. The command is a comma separated list of modes. The list of modes is available through auto-completion. By default, all modes are selected.
On success, the command returns a list on the format [protocol, [host*], port]. Once this command has been executed and successfully configured a network service, this cannot be changed in the same Simics session, which means that Simics needs to be restarted in order to provide different network properties (url and name).