isdninfo

Section: Special files (4)
Updated: 1999/09/06
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NAME

isdninfo - ISDN status device

SYNOPSIS

#include <linux/isdn.h>

DESCRIPTION

/dev/isdninfo is a character device with major number 45 and minor number 255. It delivers status information from the Linux ISDN subsystem to user level.

DATA FORMAT

When reading from this device, the current status of the Linux ISDN subsystem is delivered in 6 lines of text. Each line starts with a tag string followed by a colon and whitespace. After that the status values are appended separated by whitespace.

idmap

is the tag of the first line. In this line for every virtual channel, the Id-string of the corresponding lowlevel driver is shown. If no driver is loaded, a - (hyphen) is shown.

chmap

is the tag of line 2. In this line for every virtual channel, the channel number of the corresponding lowlevel driver is shown. If no driver is loaded, -1 is shown.

drmap

is the tag of line 3. In this line for every virtual channel, the index number of the corresponding lowlevel driver is shown. If no driver is loaded, -1 is shown.

usage

is the tag of line 4. In this line for every virtual channel, the current usage is shown. The following usage constants are defined:

ISDN_USAGE_NONE (0): Unused channel
ISDN_USAGE_RAW (1): Channel used by raw device (currently unsupported)
ISDN_USAGE_MODEM (2): Channel used by some ttyI
ISDN_USAGE_NET (3): Channel used by an ISDN net-interface
ISDN_USAGE_VOICE (4): Channel used by some ttyI in voice mode.
ISDN_USAGE_EXCLUSIVE (64): Channel exclusively preserved for a net-interface. This value is logically or'ed with one of the other codes.
ISDN_USAGE_OUTGOING (128): Channel is used outgoing. This value is logically or'ed with one of the other codes. It is set, when dialling is started and reset, when either dialling failed or after hangup. Therefore, it is not always an indicator for an established connection. To get a reliable indicator for an established connection, the driver flags (see below) have to be inspected also.

flags

is the tag of line 5. In this line for every driver slot, it's B-Channel status is shown. If no driver is registered in a slot, a ? is shown. For every established B-Channel of the driver, a bit is set in the shown value. The driver's first channel is mapped to bit 0, the second channel to bit 1 and so on.

phone

is the tag of line 6. In this line for every virtual channel, the remote phone number is shown if the channel is active. A ??? is shown, if the channel is inactive.

BLOCKING BEHAVIOUR

After opening the device, at most 6 lines can be read by a user process. After that, the user process is blocked. Whenever a status change happens, the process is allowed to read 6 more lines, starting with line one.

IOCTL FUNCTIONS

Currently, there are two ioctl calls supported:

IIOCGETDVR

Get Revision information.

Returns an unsigned long value v, representing various user level interface revisions, where

(v & 0xff): is the revision of the modem-register info, available via ioctl on /dev/isdnctrl.
((v >> 8) & 0xff): is the revision of the net-interface config data, available via ioctl on /dev/isdnctrl. and
((v >> 16) & 0xff): is the revision of the data delivered via /dev/isdninfo itself.

IIOCGETCPS

Get transfer statistics.

: Returns the number of bytes transferred so far for all virtual channels. The third parameter should be a pointer to an array of unsigned long of size ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS * 2. This array is filled with the byte counter values upon return.

OTHER CONSTANTS

There are some more useful constants defined in /usr/include/linux/isdn.h:

ISDN_TTY_MAJOR: The major device number of /dev/ttyI.
ISDN_TTYAUX_MAJOR: The major device number of /dev/cui.
ISDN_MAJOR: The major device number of /dev/isdnctrl, /dev/isdninfo, /dev/ippp and /dev/isdn
ISDN_MAX_DRIVERS: The number of driver slots.
ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS: The number of virtual channels.
ISDN_MINOR_CTRL: The minor device number of /dev/isdnctrl0.
ISDN_MINOR_CTRLMAX: The minor device number of /dev/isdnctrl63.
ISDN_MINOR_PPP: The minor device number of /dev/ippp0.
ISDN_MINOR_PPPMAX: The minor device number of /dev/ippp64.
ISDN_MINOR_STATUS: The minor device number of /dev/isdninfo.

Other constants, necessary for ioctl's on /dev/isdnctrl are listed in isdnctrl(4).

AUTHOR

Fritz Elfert <fritz@isdn4linux.de>