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32.\"     @(#)pcl.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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34.Dd June 5, 1993
35.Dt PCL 4 vax
36.Os BSD 4.2
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm pcl
39.Nd
40.Tn DEC CSS
41.Tn PCL-11 B
42Network Interface
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "device pcl0 at uba? csr 164200 vector pclxint pclrint"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm pcl
48device provides an
49.Tn IP Ns -only
50interface to the
51.Tn DEC CSS
52.Tn PCL-11
53time division multiplexed network bus.
54The controller itself is not accessible to users.
55.Pp
56The hosts's address is specified with the
57.Dv SIOCSIFADDR
58.Xr ioctl 2 .
59The interface will not transmit or receive any data before
60its address is defined.
61.Pp
62As the
63.Tn PCL-11
64hardware is only capable of having 15 interfaces per network,
65a single-byte host-on-network number is used, with range [1..15] to match
66the
67.Tn TDM
68bus addresses of the interfaces.
69.Pp
70The interface currently only supports the Internet protocol family
71and only provides
72.Dq natural
73(header) encapsulation.
74.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
75.Bl -diag
76.It pcl%d: can't init.
77Insufficient
78.Tn UNIBUS
79resources existed to initialize the device.
80This is likely to occur when the device is run on a buffered
81data path on an 11/750 and other network interfaces are also
82configured to use buffered data paths, or when it is configured
83to use buffered data paths on an 11/730 (which has none).
84.Pp
85.It pcl%d: can't handle af%d.
86The interface was handed a message with addresses formatted in an
87unsuitable address family;  the packet was dropped.
88.Pp
89.It pcl%d: stray xmit interrupt.
90An interrupt occurred when no output had previously been started.
91.Pp
92.It pcl%d: master.
93The
94.Tn TDM
95bus had no station providing ``bus master'' timing signals,
96so this interface has assumed the ``master'' role.  This message should
97only appear at most once per
98.Tn UNIBUS INIT
99on a single system.
100Unless there is a hardware failure, only one station may be master at at time.
101.Pp
102.It pcl%d: send error, tcr=%b, tsr=%b.
103The device indicated a problem sending data on output.
104If a ``receiver offline'' error is detected, it is not normally logged
105unless the option
106.Dv PCL_TESTING
107has been selected, as this causes a lot
108of console chatter when sending to a down machine.  However, this option
109is quite useful when debugging problems with the
110.Tn PCL
111interfaces.
112.Pp
113.It pcl%d: rcv error, rcr=%b rsr=%b.
114The device indicated a problem receiving data on input.
115.Pp
116.It pcl%d: bad len=%d.
117An input operation resulted in a data transfer of less than
1180 or more than 1008 bytes of
119data into memory (according to the word count register).
120This should never happen as the maximum size of a
121.Tn PCL
122message
123has been agreed upon to be 1008 bytes (same as ArpaNet message).
124.El
125.Sh SEE ALSO
126.Xr intro 4 ,
127.Xr inet 4
128.Sh HISTORY
129The
130.Nm
131interface appeared in
132.Bx 4.2 .
133