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DLPI Primitives
Local Management Primitives
| DL_CHAR |
| character synchronous communication line. |
| DL_CTCA |
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| DL_FDDI |
| Fiber Distributed Data Interface. |
| DL_OTHER |
| any other medium not listed above. |
| dl_mac_type is not valid until after a dl_attach_req has been issued. |
NOTE | |
| dl_reserved |
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| reserved field whose value must be set to zero. |
| dl_current_state |
| state of the DLPI interface for the stream when the DLS provider |
| issued this acknowledgment. |
| dl_sap_length |
| current length of the SAP component of the DLSAP address. It may |
| have a negative, zero or positive. A positive value indicates the |
| ordering of the SAP and PHSYCAL component within the DLSAP |
| address as SAP component followed by PHYSICAL component. A |
| negative value indicates PHYSICAL followed by the SAP. A zero |
| value indicates that no SAP has yet been bound. The absolute value |
| of the dl_sap_length provides the length of the SAP component within |
| the DLSAP address. |
| dl_service_mode |
| if returned before the DL_BIND_REQ is processed, this conveys |
| which services modes the DLS provider can support. It contains a |
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| DL_CODLS |
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| DL_CLDLS |
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