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36.Dd June 5, 1993
37.Dt PCL 4 vax
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm pcl
41.Nd
42.Tn DEC CSS
43.Tn PCL-11 B
44Network Interface
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "pcl0 at uba? csr 164200 vector pclxint pclrint"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48NOTE: This driver has not been ported from
49.Bx 4.4
50yet.
51.Pp
52The
53.Nm pcl
54device provides an
55.Tn IP Ns -only
56interface to the
57.Tn DEC CSS
58.Tn PCL-11
59time division multiplexed network bus.
60The controller itself is not accessible to users.
61.Pp
62The hosts's address is specified with the
63.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
64.Xr ioctl 2 .
65The interface will not transmit or receive any data before
66its address is defined.
67.Pp
68As the
69.Tn PCL-11
70hardware is only capable of having 15 interfaces per network,
71a single-byte host-on-network number is used, with range [1..15] to match
72the
73.Tn TDM
74bus addresses of the interfaces.
75.Pp
76The interface currently only supports the Internet protocol family
77and only provides
78.Dq natural
79(header) encapsulation.
80.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
81.Bl -diag
82.It pcl%d: can't init.
83Insufficient
84.Tn UNIBUS
85resources existed to initialize the device.
86This is likely to occur when the device is run on a buffered
87data path on an 11/750 and other network interfaces are also
88configured to use buffered data paths, or when it is configured
89to use buffered data paths on an 11/730 (which has none).
90.Pp
91.It pcl%d: can't handle af%d.
92The interface was handed a message with addresses formatted in an
93unsuitable address family;  the packet was dropped.
94.Pp
95.It pcl%d: stray xmit interrupt.
96An interrupt occurred when no output had previously been started.
97.Pp
98.It pcl%d: master.
99The
100.Tn TDM
101bus had no station providing ``bus master'' timing signals,
102so this interface has assumed the ``master'' role.  This message should
103only appear at most once per
104.Tn UNIBUS INIT
105on a single system.
106Unless there is a hardware failure, only one station may be master at at time.
107.Pp
108.It pcl%d: send error, tcr=%b, tsr=%b.
109The device indicated a problem sending data on output.
110If a ``receiver offline'' error is detected, it is not normally logged
111unless the option
112.Dv PCL_TESTING
113has been selected, as this causes a lot
114of console chatter when sending to a down machine.  However, this option
115is quite useful when debugging problems with the
116.Tn PCL
117interfaces.
118.Pp
119.It pcl%d: rcv error, rcr=%b rsr=%b.
120The device indicated a problem receiving data on input.
121.Pp
122.It pcl%d: bad len=%d.
123An input operation resulted in a data transfer of less than
1240 or more than 1008 bytes of
125data into memory (according to the word count register).
126This should never happen as the maximum size of a
127.Tn PCL
128message
129has been agreed upon to be 1008 bytes (same as ArpaNet message).
130.El
131.Sh SEE ALSO
132.Xr inet 4 ,
133.Xr intro 4
134.Sh HISTORY
135The
136.Nm
137interface appeared in
138.Bx 4.2 .
139