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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <m31wpp756h.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:08:38 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question on HDLC and raw access to T1/E1 serial streams.

Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> 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
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/