From 16128ad8f927850a1121b7645c6381341d9c0b63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:01:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: networking: convert generic-hdlc.txt to ReST - add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- .../{generic-hdlc.txt => generic-hdlc.rst} | 86 ++++++++++++++++------ Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) rename Documentation/networking/{generic-hdlc.txt => generic-hdlc.rst} (75%) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.txt b/Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.rst similarity index 75% rename from Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.txt rename to Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.rst index 4eb3cc4..1c3bb5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/generic-hdlc.rst @@ -1,14 +1,22 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================== Generic HDLC layer +================== + Krzysztof Halasa Generic HDLC layer currently supports: + 1. Frame Relay (ANSI, CCITT, Cisco and no LMI) + - Normal (routed) and Ethernet-bridged (Ethernet device emulation) interfaces can share a single PVC. - ARP support (no InARP support in the kernel - there is an experimental InARP user-space daemon available on: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/hdlc/). + 2. raw HDLC - either IP (IPv4) interface or Ethernet device emulation 3. Cisco HDLC 4. PPP @@ -24,19 +32,24 @@ with IEEE 802.1Q (VLANs) and 802.1D (Ethernet bridging). Make sure the hdlc.o and the hardware driver are loaded. It should create a number of "hdlc" (hdlc0 etc) network devices, one for each WAN port. You'll need the "sethdlc" utility, get it from: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/hdlc/ -Compile sethdlc.c utility: +Compile sethdlc.c utility:: + gcc -O2 -Wall -o sethdlc sethdlc.c + Make sure you're using a correct version of sethdlc for your kernel. Use sethdlc to set physical interface, clock rate, HDLC mode used, and add any required PVCs if using Frame Relay. -Usually you want something like: +Usually you want something like:: sethdlc hdlc0 clock int rate 128000 sethdlc hdlc0 cisco interval 10 timeout 25 -or + +or:: + sethdlc hdlc0 rs232 clock ext sethdlc hdlc0 fr lmi ansi sethdlc hdlc0 create 99 @@ -49,46 +62,63 @@ any IP address to it) before using pvc devices. Setting interface: -* v35 | rs232 | x21 | t1 | e1 - sets physical interface for a given port - if the card has software-selectable interfaces - loopback - activate hardware loopback (for testing only) -* clock ext - both RX clock and TX clock external -* clock int - both RX clock and TX clock internal -* clock txint - RX clock external, TX clock internal -* clock txfromrx - RX clock external, TX clock derived from RX clock -* rate - sets clock rate in bps (for "int" or "txint" clock only) +* v35 | rs232 | x21 | t1 | e1 + - sets physical interface for a given port + if the card has software-selectable interfaces + loopback + - activate hardware loopback (for testing only) +* clock ext + - both RX clock and TX clock external +* clock int + - both RX clock and TX clock internal +* clock txint + - RX clock external, TX clock internal +* clock txfromrx + - RX clock external, TX clock derived from RX clock +* rate + - sets clock rate in bps (for "int" or "txint" clock only) Setting protocol: * hdlc - sets raw HDLC (IP-only) mode + nrz / nrzi / fm-mark / fm-space / manchester - sets transmission code + no-parity / crc16 / crc16-pr0 (CRC16 with preset zeros) / crc32-itu + crc16-itu (CRC16 with ITU-T polynomial) / crc16-itu-pr0 - sets parity * hdlc-eth - Ethernet device emulation using HDLC. Parity and encoding as above. * cisco - sets Cisco HDLC mode (IP, IPv6 and IPX supported) + interval - time in seconds between keepalive packets + timeout - time in seconds after last received keepalive packet before - we assume the link is down + we assume the link is down * ppp - sets synchronous PPP mode * x25 - sets X.25 mode * fr - Frame Relay mode + lmi ansi / ccitt / cisco / none - LMI (link management) type + dce - Frame Relay DCE (network) side LMI instead of default DTE (user). + It has nothing to do with clocks! - t391 - link integrity verification polling timer (in seconds) - user - t392 - polling verification timer (in seconds) - network - n391 - full status polling counter - user - n392 - error threshold - both user and network - n393 - monitored events count - both user and network + + - t391 - link integrity verification polling timer (in seconds) - user + - t392 - polling verification timer (in seconds) - network + - n391 - full status polling counter - user + - n392 - error threshold - both user and network + - n393 - monitored events count - both user and network Frame-Relay only: + * create n | delete n - adds / deletes PVC interface with DLCI #n. Newly created interface will be named pvc0, pvc1 etc. @@ -101,26 +131,34 @@ Frame-Relay only: Board-specific issues --------------------- -n2.o and c101.o need parameters to work: +n2.o and c101.o need parameters to work:: insmod n2 hw=io,irq,ram,ports[:io,irq,...] -example: + +example:: + insmod n2 hw=0x300,10,0xD0000,01 -or +or:: + insmod c101 hw=irq,ram[:irq,...] -example: + +example:: + insmod c101 hw=9,0xdc000 -If built into the kernel, these drivers need kernel (command line) parameters: +If built into the kernel, these drivers need kernel (command line) parameters:: + n2.hw=io,irq,ram,ports:... -or + +or:: + c101.hw=irq,ram:... If you have a problem with N2, C101 or PLX200SYN card, you can issue the -"private" command to see port's packet descriptor rings (in kernel logs): +"private" command to see port's packet descriptor rings (in kernel logs):: sethdlc hdlc0 private diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index 4e225f1..d34824b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Contents: filter fore200e framerelay + generic-hdlc .. only:: subproject and html -- 2.7.4