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- From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: SDLC versus BiSync
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.020528.19078@spectrum.CMC.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:05:28 GMT
- References: <JRiJXB14w165w@zswamp.UUCP> <H.eg.EebkjQbjFHg@mips.ruessel.sub.org> <1993Jan23.041318.19307@microsoft.com>
- Organization: CMC Network Systems (Rockwell DCD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- In article <JRiJXB14w165w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP wrote:
- >> Actually, I believe that the BInary SYNChronous protocol was the basis for
- >> SDLC.
-
- In article <1993Jan23.041318.19307@microsoft.com>
- tnixon@microsoft.com (Toby Nixon) writes:
- >The bit synchronous protocols were developed later. HDLC is a "catalog" of
- >protocol elements, rather than a protocol itself; many other protocols are
- >based on HDLC, such as LAPB, LAPD, LAPM, LLC, etc. SDLC, on the other hand,
- >is a link-layer protocol itself; it shares the same bit-level framing as
- >HDLC protocols (i.e., the ISO 3309 frame structure), but the frame contents
- >in SDLC are different (address fields, control fields, etc.).
-
- SDLC is a selection of HDLC options, just like LAPB is. SDLC is the
- predominant example of the half-duplex class of HDLC called "Normal
- Response Mode" (as opposed to the symmetric full-duplex "Balanced Mode"
- used by X.25 etc).
-
- In the "Normal" procedure class, a link has one master and one or more
- slaves. Slaves speak only when they are called upon ("polled") and when
- they are done, they say "over" (by setting the "final" bit in the
- control field in the header) and then can't speak until they are polled
- again. This is very useful for multidrop lines, which used to be common
- in large mainframe networks.
-
- Many of the peculiarities of HDLC make more sense after you have seen
- SDLC.
-
- I, too, have implemented RJEHASP, 2780, 3780, 3271, etc ... I remember
- when I got a datascope as we were starting work on 3271. It made life SO
- much easier.
-
-
- --
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