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Multiplexer Driver Developer’s Guide
2.4 Handling of Control Lines on Virtual Ports
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2.4 Handling of Control Lines on Virtual Ports
Summary of control line handling.
2.5 Limitation of Virtual Ports
Flow control can be set to RTS/CTS or DSR/DTR. XON/XOFF flow control is not supported. Hardware flow con-
trol on the virtual COM ports is handled internally by the Multiplexer Protocol.
The WinMux2k driver handles neither modem nor serenum IO-control requests.
The WinMux2k driver supports only 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit.
The function IOCTL_SERIAL_XOFF_COUNTER is not supported.
The following functions return “success”, but have no effect at all:
• IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BREAK_ON
• IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BREAK_OFF
• IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_XOFF
• IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_XON
• IOCTL_SERIAL_RESET_DEVICE
Virtual ports accept any baud rate, though the changed setting will be ignored. Calling the function Open() to a
virtual port can take up to 40 seconds. It fails if the module is not connected.
Table 2: Virtual serial port with Multiplexer Protocol version 2
Signal Description
RING Read from hardware port, distributed to the first virtual port
DCD Read from hardware port, distributed to the first virtual port
DSR Received with Modem Status Command
DTR Set by user, sent with Modem Status Command, initialized with 1
CTS Received with Modem Status Command
RTS Set by user, sent with Modem Status Command, initialized with 1
Table 3: Virtual serial port with Multiplexer Protocol version 3
Signal Description
RING Received with Modem Status Command
DCD Received with Modem Status Command
DSR Received with Modem Status Command
DTR Set by user, sent with Modem Status Command, initialized with 1
CTS Received with Modem Status Command
RTS Set by user, Send with Modem Status Command, initialized with 1