2 Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
6 Generic HDLC layer currently supports:
7 - Frame Relay (ANSI, CCITT and no LMI), with ARP support (no InARP).
8 Normal (routed) and Ethernet-bridged (Ethernet device emulation)
9 interfaces can share a single PVC.
10 - raw HDLC - either IP (IPv4) interface or Ethernet device emulation.
12 - PPP (uses syncppp.c),
13 - X.25 (uses X.25 routines).
15 There are hardware drivers for the following cards:
16 - C101 by Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd.
17 - RISCom/N2 by SDL Communications Inc.
18 - and others, some not in the official kernel.
20 Ethernet device emulation (using HDLC or Frame-Relay PVC) is compatible
21 with IEEE 802.1Q (VLANs) and 802.1D (Ethernet bridging).
24 Make sure the hdlc.o and the hardware driver are loaded. It should
25 create a number of "hdlc" (hdlc0 etc) network devices, one for each
26 WAN port. You'll need the "sethdlc" utility, get it from:
27 http://hq.pm.waw.pl/hdlc/
29 Compile sethdlc.c utility:
30 gcc -O2 -Wall -o sethdlc sethdlc.c
31 Make sure you're using a correct version of sethdlc for your kernel.
33 Use sethdlc to set physical interface, clock rate, HDLC mode used,
34 and add any required PVCs if using Frame Relay.
35 Usually you want something like:
37 sethdlc hdlc0 clock int rate 128000
38 sethdlc hdlc0 cisco interval 10 timeout 25
40 sethdlc hdlc0 rs232 clock ext
41 sethdlc hdlc0 fr lmi ansi
42 sethdlc hdlc0 create 99
44 ifconfig pvc0 localIP pointopoint remoteIP
46 In Frame Relay mode, ifconfig master hdlc device up (without assigning
47 any IP address to it) before using pvc devices.
52 * v35 | rs232 | x21 | t1 | e1 - sets physical interface for a given port
53 if the card has software-selectable interfaces
54 loopback - activate hardware loopback (for testing only)
55 * clock ext - external clock (uses DTE RX and TX clock)
56 * clock int - internal clock (provides clock signal on DCE clock output)
57 * clock txint - TX internal, RX external (provides TX clock on DCE output)
58 * clock txfromrx - TX clock derived from RX clock (TX clock on DCE output)
59 * rate - sets clock rate in bps (not required for external clock or
64 * hdlc - sets raw HDLC (IP-only) mode
65 nrz / nrzi / fm-mark / fm-space / manchester - sets transmission code
66 no-parity / crc16 / crc16-pr0 (CRC16 with preset zeros) / crc32-itu
67 crc16-itu (CRC16 with ITU-T polynomial) / crc16-itu-pr0 - sets parity
69 * hdlc-eth - Ethernet device emulation using HDLC. Parity and encoding
72 * cisco - sets Cisco HDLC mode (IP, IPv6 and IPX supported)
73 interval - time in seconds between keepalive packets
74 timeout - time in seconds after last received keepalive packet before
75 we assume the link is down
77 * ppp - sets synchronous PPP mode
79 * x25 - sets X.25 mode
81 * fr - Frame Relay mode
82 lmi ansi / ccitt / none - LMI (link management) type
83 dce - Frame Relay DCE (network) side LMI instead of default DTE (user).
84 It has nothing to do with clocks!
85 t391 - link integrity verification polling timer (in seconds) - user
86 t392 - polling verification timer (in seconds) - network
87 n391 - full status polling counter - user
88 n392 - error threshold - both user and network
89 n393 - monitored events count - both user and network
92 * create n | delete n - adds / deletes PVC interface with DLCI #n.
93 Newly created interface will be named pvc0, pvc1 etc.
95 * create ether n | delete ether n - adds a device for Ethernet-bridged
96 frames. The device will be named pvceth0, pvceth1 etc.
101 Board-specific issues
102 ---------------------
104 n2.o and c101.o need parameters to work:
106 insmod n2 hw=io,irq,ram,ports[:io,irq,...]
108 insmod n2 hw=0x300,10,0xD0000,01
111 insmod c101 hw=irq,ram[:irq,...]
113 insmod c101 hw=9,0xdc000
115 If built into the kernel, these drivers need kernel (command line) parameters:
116 n2.hw=io,irq,ram,ports:...
122 If you have a problem with N2 or C101 card, you can issue the "private"
123 command to see port's packet descriptor rings (in kernel logs):
125 sethdlc hdlc0 private
127 The hardware driver has to be build with CONFIG_HDLC_DEBUG_RINGS.
128 Attaching this info to bug reports would be helpful. Anyway, let me know
129 if you have problems using this.
131 For patches and other info look at http://hq.pm.waw.pl/hdlc/