From owner-freebsd-atm Tue Sep 7 12:56:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from marcos.networkcs.com (marcos.networkcs.com [137.66.16.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C848814F5C for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mks@us.networkcs.com) Received: from us.networkcs.com (us.networkcs.com [137.66.11.15]) by marcos.networkcs.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id OAA01121; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:54:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from mks@localhost) by us.networkcs.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) id OAA71897; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:54:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Spengler Message-Id: <199909071954.OAA71897@us.networkcs.com> Subject: Re: VPI's other than zero? In-Reply-To: <19990906124322.A50392@aurora.sol.net> from Joe Greco at "Sep 6, 99 12:43:22 pm" To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:54:34 -0500 (CDT) Cc: mks@networkcs.com, atm@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Greco said: > > FORE adapters (or more specifically, the microcode running on the adapter) > > only support VPI 0. > > Well, then, that really sucks. Looks like switch tricks are in order. > > The ability to map from (VPI 0, VCI x) on one port to (VPI y, VCI z) on another port (either a host or interswitch port) should be a pretty fundamental operation on any ATM switch. -- Mike Spengler Network Computing Services, Inc. Email: mks@networkcs.com 1200 Washington Ave. So. Phone: +1 612 337 3557 Minneapolis MN 55415 FAX: +1 612 337 3400 (aka Minnesota Supercomputer Center) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message