Museum

Home

Lab Overview

Retrotechnology Articles

Online Manuals

⇒ dmc(4) — Ultrix-32 1.1

Media Vault

Software Library

Restoration Projects

Artifacts Sought

Related Articles

intro(4N)

inet(4F)

DMC(4)

NAME

dmc − DEC DMC-11/DMR-11 point-to-point communications device

SYNTAX

device dmc0 at uba0 csr 167600 vector dmcrint dmcxint

DESCRIPTION

The dmc interface provides access to a point-to-point communications device which runs at either 1 Mb/s or 56 Kb/s.  DMC-11’s communicate using the DEC DDCMP link layer protocol. 

The dmc interface driver also supports a DEC DMR-11 providing point-to-point communication running at data rates from 2.4 Kb/s to 1 Mb/s.  DMR-11’s are a more recent design and thus are preferred over DMC-11’s. 

The host’s address must be specified with an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl before the interface will transmit or recive any packets. 

DIAGNOSTICS

dmc%d: bad control %o.  A bad parameter was passed to the dmcload routine. 

dmc%d: unknown address type %d.  An input packet was received which contained a type of address unknown to the driver. 

DMC FATAL ERROR 0%o. 

DMC SOFT ERROR 0%o. 

dmc%d: af%d not supported.  The interface was handed a message which has addresses formatted in an unsuitable address family. 

SEE ALSO

intro(4N), inet(4F)

Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026