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fta(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual fta(7) NAME fta - DEFTA, DEFPA, and DEFEA FDDI Network Interfaces SYNOPSIS controller fta0 at * This is the entry in the configuration file. DESCRIPTION The fta interface can be a high-speed TURBOchannel (DEFTA), PCI (DEFPA), or EISA (DEFEA) adapter to a 100 megabit per second Fiber Dis- tributed Data Interface (FDDI) timed token ring network. The fta in- terface provides the host system with a direct FDDI network connection and enables the host to function as a station capable of transmitting, receiving, and repeating data on the ring. The adapter uses DMA transfers for both transmitted and received data. The driver initializes the DMA engine before placing the adapter on the ring. The adapter can operate in full duplex mode. To allow the fta inter- face operate in full duplex mode, connect two like 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 SIOCSI- FADDR ioctl. The fta 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 fta interface is 4500 bytes, which is substantially larger that the 1500 bytes maximum packet size of the Ethernet interfaces. The fta 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 adapter. The physical address of the 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 adapter supports up to 62 multicast addresses. The SIOCRDCTRS ioctl can be used to read the FDDI driver counters. The adapter status and characteristics can also be read through this ioctl by providing one of the following flags: FDDI_STATUS, CTR_FDDI, FD- DIMIB_PATH, FDDIMIB_SMT, FDDIMIB_MAC, FDDIMIB_PORT, and FDDIMIB_ATTA. The argument to this ioctl is a pointer to a counter or status struc- ture, 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 supports 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,"fta0"); 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("\n"); 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,"fta0"); if (ioctl(s,SIOCIFRESET,&data) < 0) { perror("SIOCIFRESET:"); exit(1); } close(s); } ERRORS Diagnostic messages contain information provided by the fta 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 Unavail- able state and finally to the Link Available state. The following messages contain information about adapter events: The adapter received a directed beacon. The adapter has detected a dupli- cate token. On point-to-point links, this can occur when going into full-duplex mode, and is not a problem. There is a parity error on the host bus. The adapter received an illegal length packet. A station on the ring is transmitting illegal length packets. This might indicate a router problem. A link transmit underrun occurred. A link transmit failure occurred. The adapter has detected a CRC error. This can be either a transmit or receive station problem. If this occurs intermit- tently, the cable connectors might be dirty. If this is a steady prob- lem and from the same source, the transmitting station's adapter is faulty. The adapter has detected a parity error in the packet memory. A PC Trace has been initiated. The adapter received a PC trace. The adapter's receive queue is full and packets are being dropped. A ring beacon was initiated. 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 er- ror is not fatal. If an error occurs, the driver will not reinitialize the adapter. The adapter cannot transition to the DMA Available state. A fatal error occurred, and the driver cannot recover. The driver is off line. The adapter self test failed. The driver accessed an ille- gal location on the adapter. RELATED INFORMATION Commands: netstat(1), fddi_config(8). Network Information: arp(7), inet(7), intro(7). delim off fta(7)