Re: Question on HDLC and raw access to T1/E1 serial streams.

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 12:09:20 EST


Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I would definitely want the driver/hardware to deal with the byte/bit
> boundaries. But,
> the user-space read API could be similar to UDP (or HDLC if I
> understand it correctly),

I think so.

> Before I settle on hardware, I'd like to have some idea that the NIC
> can deal with raw
> bit-streams.

I will look at FALC docs. Most (?) sync serial processors can RX/TX
transparent data (though for E3 rates it would be better to have
some hardware support).
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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