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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:19:14 -0400
From:      dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
To:        Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Frame relay and ATM support: virtual interface per vpi?
Message-ID:  <199606281619.MAA24888@etinc.com>

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>I was proposing a "atmdump" to a student interested in doing something
>in the network tool area. Since ATM adapters' SAR reconstitutes AAL
>packets (and a person couldn't keep up with the construction of
>AAL packets from cell in software) that they leave and report the
>PDUs with the recieved summary  header (and trailer if appropriate).
>
>In this way, a person can save raw packets, display header, or control
>information just like "tcpdump". I would prefer to treat all the virtual
>circuits as one interface to have the ability to display everything
>and use command line filters to restrict the view just like "tcpdump".

Its nice to have an option at the hardware level to do filters on a per 
connection basis. On a fast ATM link, you could be passing up a ton
of data for user-level filtering. We just added per DLCI debugging 
because its just unworkable to filter everything at T1 speeds.

Dennis
>
>--mark.
>
>
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