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36.Dd June 5, 1993
37.Dt DMC 4 vax
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm dmc
41.Nd
42.Tn DEC
43.Tn DMC-11 Ns / Tn DMR-11
44point-to-point serial communications device
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "dmc0 at uba0 csr 167600 vector dmcrint dmcxint"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm dmc
50interface provides access to a point-to-point communications
51device which runs at either 1 Mb/s or 56 Kb/s.
52.Tn DMC-11 Ns s
53communicate
54using the
55.Tn DEC DDCMP
56link layer protocol.
57.Pp
58The
59.Nm dmc
60interface driver also supports a
61.Tn DEC
62.Tn DMR-11
63providing point-to-point
64communication running at data rates from 2.4 Kb/s to 1 Mb/s.
65.Tn DMR-11 Ns s
66are a more recent design and thus are preferred over
67.Tn DMC-11 Ns s .
68The
69.Dv NXMT
70and
71.Dv NRCV
72constants in the driver may be increased in this case,
73as the
74.Tn DMR
75can accept up to 64 transmit and receive buffers, as opposed
76to 7 for the
77.Tn DMC .
78.Pp
79The configuration flags specify how to set up the device,
80.Bl -column xxx -offset indent
810	full duplex DDCMP (normal mode)
821	DDCMP Maintence mode (generally useless)
832	DDCMP Half Duplex, primary station
843	DDCMP Half Duplex, secondary station
85.El
86.Pp
87Several device error counters are available via
88.Xr adb 1 ,
89for
90more information see the
91.Xr adb
92script
93.Pa /usr/lib/adb/dmcstats ,
94or the
95.Tn DMC-11
96technical manual.
97.Pp
98The host's address must be specified with an
99.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
100.Xr ioctl 2 ,
101and the destination address specified with a
102.Dv SIOCSIFDSTADDR
103.Xr ioctl ,
104before the interface will transmit or receive any packets.
105.Sh ROUTING
106The driver places a
107.Tn HOST
108entry in the kernel routing tables for the
109address given in the
110.Dv SIOCSIFDSTADDR
111.Xr ioctl.
112To use the
113.Tn DMC
114as a
115link between local nets, the route to the remote net must be added manually
116with the
117.Xr route 8
118command, or by the use of the routing process
119.Xr routed 8
120on each end of the link.
121.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
122.Bl -diag
123.It dmc%d: bad control %o.
124A bad parameter was passed to the
125.Em dmcload
126routine.
127.Pp
128.It dmc%d: unknown address type %d.
129An input packet was received which contained a type of
130address unknown to the driver.
131.Pp
132.It DMC fatal error 0%o.
133A fatal error in
134.Tn DDMCP
135occurred, causing the device to be restarted.
136.Pp
137.It DMC soft error 0%o.
138A non-fatal error in
139.Tn DDMCP
140has occurred.
141.Pp
142.It dmc%d: af%d not supported.
143The interface was handed a message which has
144addresses formatted in an unsuitable address family.
145.El
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr intro 4 ,
148.Xr inet 4
149.Sh HISTORY
150The
151.Nm
152driver appeared in
153.Bx 4.2 .
154.Sh BUGS
155The current version of the driver uses a link-level encapsulation
156so that multiple protocol types may be used.
157It is thus incompatible with earlier drivers,
158including the
159.Bx 4.2
160version.
161