VV(4) | Device Drivers Manual (vax) | VV(4) |
vv
— Proteon
proNET 10 Megabit ring network
vv0 at uba0 csr 0161000 vector vvrint
vvxint
NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 4.4BSD yet.
The vv
interface provides access to a 10
Mb/s Proteon proNET ring network.
The network address of the interface must be specified with an
SIOCSIFADDR
ioctl(2) before data can be
transmitted or received. It is only permissible to change the network
address while the interface is marked “down”.
The host's hardware address is discovered by putting the interface in digital loopback mode (not joining the ring) and sending a broadcast packet from which the hardware address is extracted.
Transmit timeouts are detected through use of a watchdog routine. Lost input interrupts are checked for when packets are sent out.
If the installation is running CTL boards which use the old
broadcast address of ‘0
’ instead of
the new address of ‘0xff
’, the define
OLD_BROADCAST
should be specified in the driver.
The vv
driver appeared in
4.2BSD.
February 5, 2019 | NetBSD 10.99 |