TLX Matrix Switch ASCII API V5 26 Rev. I, January 2019
Appendix D: Point-to-Point Connection Mode
Version 5.0 of The API may be configured so that input ports are restricted to one output port
at a time. If input X is first connected to output A, then connected to output B, X will be disconnected
from A and moved to B. This mode is referred to as Point-to-Point mode, or P2P for short.
The P2P definition file is stored on the Controller Card in the following file:
/var/local/router/p2p/upstream.csv
P2P mode is disabled when the definition file does not exist. By default, when there is no file,
input ports may connect simultaneously to any number of output ports. All TLX Matrix Switches are
shipped without a P2P file.
This file is in the form of a comma separated value (csv) file. Each entry in the file is the input port
that you want to restrict to P2P mode. You may have one or more entries per line in the file. The only
characters allowed in the file are the digits 0 through 9, commas, and spaces. Blank lines are allowed.
An example that set ports 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 15 to P2P mode is:
1,2,3,4
9
11, 15
As a shortcut, you may use the value 9999 to indicate ALL input ports.
If you make changes to this file, you may force the API to reread them by issuing the command:
killall -HUP tlxapi
If P2P files are found at startup, the API will log this to the file: /var/log/api.
An example is shown below.
imx tlxapi[17151]: parsing P2P csv file /var/local/router/p2p/upstream.csv
imx tlxapi[17151]: parse_api_csv_file.c@133: line 1 of csv file /var/local/router/p2p/upstream.csv '1,2,3,4#012'
imx tlxapi[17151]: parse_api_csv_file.c@133: line 2 of csv file /var/local/router/p2p/upstream.csv '9#012'
imx tlxapi[17151]: parse_api_csv_file.c@133: line 3 of csv file /var/local/router/p2p/upstream.csv '11, 15#012'
imx tlxapi[17151]: point-to-point mode enabled
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