Re: HDLC via V.24 or b-channel?

Tilman Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.user
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Am 15.03.2012 16:51, schrieb Jens Bürger:
> What I am not sure about is the question, how HDLC might have been
> implemented via "V.24"? Would it be possible to do this via a standard
> (USB-)RS232-interface?

V.24 (or equivalently, RS232C) is just a mechanical and electrical
specification for a serial interface. It doesn't say anything about the
structure of what's finally going to be transmitted over the lines thus
specified. In particular, it doesn't specify whether the transmission is
to be synchronous or asynchronous. Nothing in the standards forbids
using a synchronous link protocol like HDLC over V.24. In fact, the
ubiquitous Intel 8251 was originally called USART (Universal
*Synchronous* Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter - my emphasis) because
it could do both.

However, whether
- the "8251"s inside today's chipsets still retain that capability
- USB serial adapters can do synchronous transmission at all
- Linux serial drivers support any of that
is for someone else to answer. The last time I dealt with HDLC myself
was when I coded the bytewise HDLC frame encoder/decoder for the Gigaset
driver, and that was for ISDN B channels, not for V.24.

HTH
T.
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