faa(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual faa(7)
NAME
faa - DEFAA FDDI Network Interface
SYNOPSIS
controller faa0 at * vector faaintr
This is the entry in the configuration file.
DESCRIPTION
The faa interface is a high-speed Futurebus+ adapter to a 100 megabit per second Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) timed token ring
network adapter. The faa interface allows the host system to be an FDDI single attachment station.
The DEFAA uses DMA transfers for both transmitted and received data. The driver initializes the DMA engine before placing the adapter on
the ring.
The DEFAA can operate in full duplex mode. To allow the faa interface operate in full duplex mode, connect two DEFAA adapters back-to-
back. The full duplex mode is enabled or disabled by using the fddi_config command.
The host's Internet address is specified at boot time with an SIOCSIFADDR ioctl. The faa interface employs the address resolution protocol
described in arp(7) to map dynamically between Internet and physical addresses on the FDDI ring.
The maximum frame size for the faa interface is 4500 bytes, which is substantially larger that the 1500 bytes maximum packet size of the
Ethernet interfaces. The faa interface does not support the BSD trailer encapsulation, which is specific to the VAX architecture.
The SIOCRPHYSADDR ioctl can be used to read the physical address of the DEFAA adapter. The physical address of the DEFAA adapter can be
changed by use of the SIOCSPHYSADDR ioctl.
The SIOCADDMULTI and SIOCDELMULTI ioctls can be used to add or delete multicast addresses. The DEFAA supports up to 62 multicast addresses.
The SIOCRDCTRS ioctl can be used to read the FDDI driver counters. The DEFAA adapter status and characteristics can also be read through
this ioctl by providing one of the following flags: FDDI_STATUS, CTR_FDDI, FDDIMIB_PATH, FDDIMIB_SMT, FDDIMIB_MAC, FDDIMIB_PORT, and
FDDIMIB_ATTA. The argument to this ioctl is a pointer to a counter or status structure, ctrreq, found in <net/if.h>.
The SIOCENABLBACK and SIOCDISABLBACK ioctls can be used to enable and disable the interface loopback mode, respectively. The driver enables
internal loopback only.
The SIOCIFRESET ioctl can be used to reset the adapter.
EXAMPLES
To obtain the physical address of the adapter, use the SIOCRPHYSADDR ioctl as in the following program example: #include <stdio.h>
/* standard I/O */ #include <errno.h> /* error numbers */ #include <sys/socket.h> /* socket definitions */ #include
<sys/ioctl.h> /* ioctls */ #include <net/if.h> /* generic interface structures */
main() {
int s,i;
static struct ifdevea devea;
/* Get a socket */
s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
if (s < 0) {
perror("socket");
exit(1);
}
strcpy(devea.ifr_name,"faa0");
if (ioctl(s,SIOCRPHYSADDR,&devea) < 0) {
perror(&devea.ifr_name[0]);
exit(1);
}
printf("Address is ");
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
printf("%X ", devea.default_pa[i] & 0xff);
printf("
");
close(s); }
To reset the adapter, use the SIOCIFRESET ioctl as in the following program example: #include <stdio.h> /* standard I/O */
#include <errno.h> /* error numbers */ #include <sys/socket.h> /* socket definitions */ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
/* ioctls */ #include <net/if.h> /* generic interface structures */
main() {
int s;
struct ifreq data;
/* Get a socket */
s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
if (s < 0) {
perror("socket");
exit(1);
}
strcpy(data.ifr_name,"faa0");
if (ioctl(s,SIOCIFRESET,&data) < 0) {
perror("SIOCIFRESET:");
exit(1);
}
close(s); }
ERRORS
Diagnostic messages contain information provided by the faa driver and the adapter. The following messages contain information about the
adapter's state, and are printed on the console, where n is an message number:
Once in the DMA Available state, the adapter goes to the Link Unavailable state and finally to the Link Available state.
The following messages contain information about adapter events: The DEFAA has received a directed beacon. There is a parity error on the
host bus. A link transmit underrun occurred. A link transmit failure occurred. The DEFAA adapter has detected a parity error in the
packet memory. A PC Trace has been initiated. The DEFAA adapter received a PC trace. The adapter's receive queue is full and packets are
being dropped. A ring beacon was initiated. The FDDI ring is being initialized. This occurs each time a machine comes on or goes off the
ring. A ring purge error has occurred. The following are diagnostic error messages about driver events: The driver could not start the
thread that perform error recovery. This error is not fatal. If an error occurs, the driver will not reinitialize the adapter. The DEFAA
cannot transition to the DMA Available state. The driver could not disable the internal loopback on the DEFAA adapter. A fatal error
occurred, and the driver cannot recover. The driver is off line. The driver could not enable the internal loopback on the DEFAA adapter.
The DEFAA detected an error and signaled the driver to flush the transmit queue. The DEFAA is being reinitialized. The adapter will reset
the adapter and force it to the DMA Available state. The adapter self test failed. The driver accessed an illegal location on the
adapter.
RELATED INFORMATION
netstat(1), arp(7), inet(7), intro(7), fddi_config(8) delim off
faa(7)