The transmit layer management state variable
(transmitEnabled as defined in [9]) for a
particular interface. The value true(1) signifies
that the MAC frame transmission is enabled on said
interface. The value false(2) signifies that the
MAC frame transmission is inhibited on said
interface. In particular, the value of an instance
of this object is false(2) whenever the value of
the corresponding instance of the
dot3MacSubLayerStatus object is disabled(2).
Each alteration of an instance of this object to
the value true(1) is analogous to an invocation of
the enableTransmit action defined in [9] and has
the effect of enabling MAC sublayer frame
transmission on the associated interface. In
particular, such an alteration has the effect of
setting the transmit layer management state
variable (transmitEnabled in [9]) for said
interface to be true.
Each alteration of an instance of this object to
the value false(2) is analogous to an invocation
of the disableTransmit action defined in [9] and
has the effect of inhibiting MAC sublayer frame
transmission on the associated interface. In
particular, such an alteration has the effect of
setting the transmit layer management state
variable (transmitEnabled in [9]) for said
interface to be false. Any transmissions in
progress are completed before transmission is
inhibited.