Data communication device

• US 20040131080A1
• Filed: 08/27/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ito, Takatsugu
• Application Number:
  US10/469,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20040131080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/168 specially adapted for link layer protocols, e.g. asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], synchronous optical network [SONET] or point-to-point protocol [PPP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a data communication device for performing synchronous/asynchronous conversion between an asynchronous point to point protocol (PPP) device and a synchronous PPP device. An asynchronous interface unit performs communication of asynchronous PPP data with the asynchronous PPP unit. A synchronous interface unit performs communication of synchronous PPP data with the synchronous PPP device. A synchronous/asynchronous converter carries out synchronous/asynchronous PPP conversion, monitors a Link Control Protocol (LCP) Configure Request and stores an Asynchronous Control Character Map (ACCM) value on control code escape included in the LCP Configure Request in an ACCM storage unit. Moreover, after the LCP is established, referring the ACCM value stored in the ACCM storage unit, the synchronous/asynchronous converter performs escape processing of the control code for the data transmitted from the synchronous PPP device.

Claims

1. A data communication device for synchronous/asynchronous conversion between an asynchronous point to point protocol (PPP) device and a synchronous PPP device comprising:

an asynchronous interface unit for performing communication of asynchronous PPP data with said asynchronous PPP device;

a synchronous interface unit for performing communication of synchronous PPP data with said synchronous PPP device;

an ACCM storage unit for storing Asynchronous Control Character Map (ACCM) value on escaping control codes; and

a synchronous/asynchronous converter for carrying out PPP synchronous/asynchronous conversion,

wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors a Link Control Protocol (LCP) Configure Request from said asynchronous PPP device received by said asynchronous interface unit, stores an ACCM value included in said LCP Configure Request in said ACCM storage unit, and performs escape-processing of the control code for the data transmitted from said synchronous PPP device received by said synchronous interface unit, referring the ACCM value stored in said ACCM storage unit, after the LCP establishment.

2. The data communication device of claim 1, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter examines a received packet whether the received packet is an LCP packet or other than the LCP packet, converts all control codes into 2 octet escape sequence according to a PPP standard if the received packet is the LCP packet, and converts a needed quantity of control codes into the 2 octet escape sequence referring to the ACCM value stored in said ACCM storage unit if the received packet is other than the LCP packet.

3. The data communication device of claim 1, wherein each of said asynchronous PPP unit and said asynchronous PPP unit transmits a LCP Configure Request each other to start an LCP negotiation.

4. The data communication device of one of claim 1 and claim 3, wherein said LCP Configure Request transmitted from said asynchronous PPP device to said synchronous PPP device includes ACCM values on escaping the control code to be used by said synchronous PPP device in data transmission.

6. The data communication device of claim 1, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors the LCP Configure Request from said asynchronous PPP device only until LCP establishment.

8. The data communication device of claim 1, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors the LCP Configure Request from said synchronous PPP device only until a first one of the LCP Configure Request is received and stores the ACCM values included in said first one of the LCP Configure Request received in said ACCM storage unit.

10. The data communication device of any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors the LCP Configure Request from said asynchronous PPP device received by said asynchronous interface unit constantly.

5. A data communication device for synchronous/asynchronous conversion between an asynchronous point to point protocol (PPP) device and a synchronous PPP device comprising:

(a) an asynchronous interface unit for performing communication of asynchronous PPP data with said asynchronous PPP unit;

(b) a synchronous interface unit for performing communication of synchronous PPP data with said synchronous PPP unit;

an ACCM storage unit for storing an Asynchronous Control Character Map (ACCM) value on escaping in a control code; and

a synchronous/asynchronous converter for carrying out PPP synchronous/asynchronous conversion,

wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors a Link Control Protocol (LCP) Configure Response from said synchronous PPP device received by said synchronous interface unit, stores an ACCM values included in said LCP Configure Response in said ACCM storage unit, and performs escape-processing of the control code of the data transmitted from said synchronous PPP device received by said synchronous interface unit, referring the ACCM value stored in said ACCM storage unit, after the LCP establishment.

7. The data communication device of claim 5, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors the LCP Configure Response from said synchronous PPP device only until an LCP establishment.

11. The data communication device of claim 5, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter monitors the LCP Configure Request from said synchronous PPP device received by said synchronous interface device constantly.

9. A data communication device for synchronous/asynchronous conversion between an asynchronous point to point protocol (PPP) device and a synchronous PPP device comprising:

an asynchronous interface unit for performing communication of asynchronous PPP data with said asynchronous PPP device;

a synchronous interface device for performing communication of synchronous PPP data with said synchronous PPP device; and

a synchronous/asynchronous converter for exchanging data with said asynchronous interface device and said synchronous interface device respectively and for carrying out synchronous/asynchronous PPP conversion, wherein said synchronous/asynchronous converter performing escape processing of all control codes received from said synchronous PPP device.