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32.Dd February 17, 2017
33.Dt PCL 4 vax
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm pcl
37.Nd
38.Tn DEC CSS
39.Tn PCL-11 B
40Network Interface
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "pcl0 at uba? csr 164200 vector pclxint pclrint"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44NOTE: This driver has not been ported from
45.Bx 4.4
46yet.
47.Pp
48The
49.Nm pcl
50device provides an
51.Tn IP Ns -only
52interface to the
53.Tn DEC CSS
54.Tn PCL-11
55time division multiplexed network bus.
56The controller itself is not accessible to users.
57.Pp
58The host's address is specified with the
59.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
60.Xr ioctl 2 .
61The interface will not transmit or receive any data before
62its address is defined.
63.Pp
64As the
65.Tn PCL-11
66hardware is only capable of having 15 interfaces per network,
67a single-byte host-on-network number is used, with range [1..15] to match
68the
69.Tn TDM
70bus addresses of the interfaces.
71.Pp
72The interface currently only supports the Internet protocol family
73and only provides
74.Dq natural
75(header) encapsulation.
76.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
77.Bl -diag
78.It pcl%d: can't init.
79Insufficient
80.Tn UNIBUS
81resources existed to initialize the device.
82This is likely to occur when the device is run on a buffered
83data path on an 11/750 and other network interfaces are also
84configured to use buffered data paths, or when it is configured
85to use buffered data paths on an 11/730 (which has none).
86.It pcl%d: can't handle af%d.
87The interface was handed a message with addresses formatted in an
88unsuitable address family;  the packet was dropped.
89.It pcl%d: stray xmit interrupt.
90An interrupt occurred when no output had previously been started.
91.It pcl%d: master.
92The
93.Tn TDM
94bus had no station providing ``bus master'' timing signals,
95so this interface has assumed the ``master'' role.
96This message should only appear at most once per
97.Tn UNIBUS INIT
98on a single system.
99Unless there is a hardware failure, only one station may be master at a time.
100.It pcl%d: send error, tcr=%b, tsr=%b.
101The device indicated a problem sending data on output.
102If a ``receiver offline'' error is detected, it is not normally logged
103unless the option
104.Dv PCL_TESTING
105has been selected, as this causes a lot
106of console chatter when sending to a down machine.
107However, this option
108is quite useful when debugging problems with the
109.Tn PCL
110interfaces.
111.It pcl%d: rcv error, rcr=%b rsr=%b.
112The device indicated a problem receiving data on input.
113.It pcl%d: bad len=%d.
114An input operation resulted in a data transfer of less than
1150 or more than 1008 bytes of
116data into memory (according to the word count register).
117This should never happen as the maximum size of a
118.Tn PCL
119message
120has been agreed upon to be 1008 bytes (same as ARPANET message).
121.El
122.Sh SEE ALSO
123.Xr inet 4 ,
124.Xr vax/intro 4
125.Sh HISTORY
126The
127.Nm
128interface appeared in
129.Bx 4.2 .
130