Source of the transmit and receive clocks. external The modem provides the clock. internal The communications device provides the clock. reflected The DTE transmit clock is a reflection of the DCE transmit clock. This minimizes the clock to data skew that the DCE encounters when high line speeds are used. The default value depends on the setting of the characteristic communications mode. If communications mode is asynchronous, the default value of this characteristic is internal. Otherwise, the default value is external. The value of this attribute has no effect when the communications line is in loopback mode. In this case, the type of loopback determines the type of clock. You can modify this characteristic only when the entity is disabled.