man/man4/ng_async.4

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.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>
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.Dd January 19, 1999
.Dt NG_ASYNC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ng_async
.Nd asynchronous framing netgraph node type
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In netgraph/ng_async.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm async
node type performs conversion between synchronous frames and
asynchronous frames, as defined for the PPP protocol in RFC 1662.
Asynchronous framing uses flag bytes and octet-stuffing
to simulate a frame oriented connection over an octet-oriented
asynchronous serial line.
.Pp
The node transmits and receives asynchronous data on the
.Dv async
hook.  Mbuf boundaries of incoming data are ignored.
Once a complete packet has been received, it is decoded and
stripped of all framing bytes, and transmitted out the
.Dv sync
hook as a single frame.
.Pp
Synchronous frames are transmitted and received on the
.Dv sync
hook.
Packets received on this hook are encoded as asynchronous frames
and sent out on
.Dv async .
Received packets should start with the address and control fields,
or the PPP protocol field if address and control field compression
is employed, and contain no checksum field.  If the first four bytes are
.Dv "0xff 0x03 0xc0 0x21"
(an LCP protocol frame) then complete control character escaping
is enabled for that frame (in PPP, LCP packets are always sent with
no address and control field compression and all control characters
escaped).
.Pp
This node supports
.Dq flag sharing
for packets transmitted on
.Dv async .
This is an optimization where the trailing flag byte
of one frame is shared with the opening flag byte of the next.
Flag sharing between frames is disabled after one second of transmit
idle time.
.Sh HOOKS
This node type supports the following hooks:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width foobar
.It Dv async
Asynchronous connection.
Typically this hook would be connected to a
.Xr ng_tty 4
node, which handles transmission of serial data over a tty device.
.It Dv sync
Synchronous connection.  This hook sends and receives synchronous frames.
For PPP, these frames should contain address, control, and protocol fields,
but no checksum field.
Typically this hook would be connected to an individual link hook of a
.Xr ng_ppp 4
type node.
.El
.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES
This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following:
.Bl -tag -width foo
.It Dv NGM_ASYNC_CMD_GET_STATS
This command returns a
.Dv "struct ng_async_stat"
containing node statistics for packet, octet, and error counts.
.It Dv NGM_ASYNC_CMD_CLR_STATS
Clears the node statistics.
.It Dv NGM_ASYNC_CMD_SET_CONFIG
Sets the node configuration, which is described by a
.Dv "struct ng_async_cfg" :
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
struct ng_async_cfg {
  u_char    enabled;  /* Turn encoding on/off */
  u_int16_t amru;     /* Max receive async frame len */
  u_int16_t smru;     /* Max receive sync frame len */
  u_int32_t accm;     /* ACCM encoding */
};
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Dv enabled
field enables or disables all encoding/decoding functions (default disabled).
When disabled, the node operates in simple
.Dq pass through
mode.
The
.Dv amru
and
.Dv smru
fields are the asynchronous and synchronous MRU (maximum receive unit) values,
respectively.  These both default to 1600; note that the async MRU
applies to the incoming frame length after asynchronous decoding.
The
.Dv accm
field is the asynchronous character control map, which controls the escaping
of characters 0x00 thorough 0x1f (default 0xffffffff).
.It Dv NGM_ASYNC_CMD_GET_CONFIG
This command returns the current configuration structure.
.El
.Sh SHUTDOWN
This node shuts down upon receipt of a
.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN
control message, or when all hooks have been disconnected.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netgraph 4 ,
.Xr ng_ppp 4 ,
.Xr ng_tty 4 ,
.Xr ngctl 8
.Rs
.%A W. Simpson
.%T "PPP in HDLC-link Framing"
.%O RFC 1662
.Re
.Rs
.%A W. Simpson
.%T "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)"
.%O RFC 1661
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
node type was implemented in
.Fx 4.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@FreeBSD.org