MCP Responses From Serial Adapter

This section describes the format of MCP response messages passed from the Serial Adapter to an External Computer.

Data Packet Received

Purpose: This is the message used by the Serial Adapter to deliver packets to the External Computer which have been received by the Serial Adapter over the radio.

Message Format:

BYTE

response (ASCII ‘d’, 64H)

BYTE

rssi

;Radio signal strength of received

 

 

:packet

BYTE

pinstat

;RS-232 pin status of sending node

BYTE

len H

;Length of the user message

BYTE

len L

 

BYTE

srcaddr H

;IP Address of source

BYTE

srcaddr 3

 

BYTE

srcaddr 2

 

BYTE

srcaddr L

 

BYTES

user message

 

Status Indication of Transmitted Packet

Purpose: This message informs the External Computer of the status of the most recent data message sent to the Serial Adapter with the Transmit Data Packet command. The response contains a duplicate of the sequence number provided in the original Trans- mit Data Packet message, as well as the length and destination address. In addition, a StatusInd code is provided which indi- cates whether the message was sent successfully to the TCP/IP stack or not.

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Proxima ASA 7911, 7910 MCP Responses From Serial Adapter, Data Packet Received, Status Indication of Transmitted Packet