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ATM Switch Network Configuration Manual
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Configuring Classical IP
2.2.2 Operating with ILMI Support
FORE Systems switches running ForeThought software provide support for ILMI. If ILMI is
supported on all of the switches and hosts in a given network, when a switch boots up, ILMI
enables the switch to discover all of the hosts attached to it and to send its ATM prefix associ-
ated with the port to those hosts dynamically. In return, the host prepends that prefix to its ESI
and selector fields, forming a complete ATM address. The host then notifies the switch of its
complete ATM address. These registration messages are sent and received over AAL5 using
VPI: 0, VCI: 16. Once ILMI registration has been completed, then connection setup can occur.
If a host changes network ports after an ATM address has been registered for its interface, all
existing connections are closed. If the new port is on a different switch, a new ATM address
(with a different network address prefix) is registered. The host can then begin to establish
new connections.
2.2.3 Operating without ILMI Support
If ILMI is not supported on a particular switch or host in a given network, then the ATM
addresses must be manually configured. If another vendor’s switch does not support ILMI, it
can not supply an ATM prefix to the hosts. Therefore, the user must assign a unique, valid pre-
fix to the switch. Additionally, the same prefix should be used for all hosts attached to that
switch.
On the host,
uniconfig
is used to configure the ATM address for a specific interface. The
switch directly attached to this interface is then informed of this ATM address/port combina-
tion through commands in the ATM Management Interface (AMI). Once the host and network
have both been informed of this ATM address/port pair, the host may begin signalling.
2.2.4 Configuration
The choice to use ILMI for address registration is made at software installation time. Since
ILMI uses SNMP as its management protocol, the use of ILMI is tied into
snmpd
. The choice
can be made to run FORE’s SNMP agent and use ILMI (
snmpd
), run FORE’s SNMP agent
without using ILMI (
snmpd
-n
), or just use ILMI (
snmpd
-i
or
ilmid
-i
).
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