more on the HFC saga

[Bruce Lilly]

In article <1991May24.054753.28804 at colnet.uucp> res at colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>
>  "However, in the full-duplex variations, RTS/CTS is used as a kind of
>  throttle.  The signals have the opposite meanings than they do for
>  half-duplex communications.
>
>  "When a DTE device is able to accept data, it asserts pin 4, Request to
>  Send.  If the DCE is ready to accept data, it asserts pin 5, Clear to
>  Send.  If the voltage on RTS or CTS drops at any time, this tells the
>  sending system that the receiver is not ready for more data...
>
>This seems to agree with what the poster says above.  Could it be that
>AT&T implemented the half-duplex standard, which deals only with DTE to DCE
>flow control?  I have always assumed HFC worked like what was described as
>the full-duplex variation, but maybe this is not the case.   It would be
>interesting to hear from someone more well versed in the implementation
>of the standards.

HFC in the 3b1 (at least with 3.51m) works as described above
(full-duplex). There is, however a TCSRTS ioctl which only works in
half-duplex.

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	Bruce Lilly		blilly!balilly!bruce at sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM