Bus Off State

If the transmit error counter increments above 255, the CAN device transitions into the bus off state. A device in the bus off state does not transmit or receive any frames, and thus cannot have any influence on the bus. The bus off state disables a malfunctioning CAN device that frequently transmits invalid frames, so that the device does not adversely affect other devices on the network. When a CAN device transitions to bus off, it can be placed back into error active state (with both counters reset to zero) only by manual intervention. For sensor/actuator types of devices, this often involves powering the device off then on. For NI-XNET network interfaces, communication can be started again using an API function.