ATM issue: one Host Four Nodes

slowforce at zju.edu.cn slowforce at zju.edu.cn
Fri Sep 6 13:53:28 EST 2002


Hi Alex£¬
you mean that maybe i need an ATM switch to creat the ring topology
how can i implement it? can you give more detail info on it?
Regards
Li
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>From:Alex Zeffertt <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com>
>Reply-To:
>To: <slowforce at zju.edu.cn>
>Subject: Re: ATM issue: one Host Four Nodes
>
>On Thu, 5 Sep 2002,  wrote:
>
>
>In each NODE set up 1 terminated VC, and 3 switched VCs (using the
>atm-860.o specific /proc/net/atm/switch interface).
>
>here's an example of how to set up a switched VC from 0.0.32 to 0.0.32
>using the atm-860.o driver:
>
>echo add 0.0.32 0.0.32 1000 cbr > /proc/net/atm/switch
>
>           ^      ^     ^    ^
>         from-VC to-VC  PCR  TT
>
>See http://mpc860sar.sourceforge.net for the source code.
>
>Alex
>
>BTW:  If you're board only has one PHY then you need an ATM switch in the
>middle to create the ring topology.  If it's multi PHY then you will need
>to modify the atm-860.o driver because it doesn't support this yet.  (I
>think that multi-PHY is only available on MPC862s anyway....)
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> We just have such a system to build.
>>                                 ________
>>                                 |      |
>>                             RX  | ATM  |_TX____________________________
>>   |---------------------------->| HOST |                              |
>>   |                             |      |                              |
>>   |                             |______|                              |
>>   |                                                                   |
>>   |      ________       ________        ________       ________       |
>>   |      |      |       |      |        |      |       |      |       |
>>   |   TX | ATM  | RX  TX| ATM  | RX   TX| ATM  | RX  TX| ATM  |  RX   |
>>   |------| NODE |<------| NODE |<-------| NODE |<------| NODE |<------|
>>          |      |       |      |        |      |       |      |
>>          |______|       |______|        |______|       |______|
>>              A              B               C              D
>> It's used to perform high speed data acqusition.
>> ATM HOST -- a pc with an ATM card
>> ATM NODE -- MPC860 with linux-2.4.4
>>
>> The ATM HOST is responisble for sending controlling information to ATM NODEs
>> and receiving data from each NODEs.
>> The ATM NODE is responsible for performing data acqusition.
>>
>> As the diagram show,ATM NODEs are connected one after another.
>> we use one VPI/VCI to identify one ATM NODE, so if the ATM HOST send the
>> control message to ATM NODE D, the message will touch  ATM NODE A¡¢B¡¢C first,
>> then ATM NODE D. In order to improve the system capacity and efficiency,
>> the ATM NODE A¡¢B¡¢C should ignore this message(not parse it) and send it
>> to the next node, in another words, this message should be bypassed in low
>> level(e.g. PHY level) by ATM NODE A¡¢B¡¢C. How can i get this point?
>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
>> Best Regards!
>> Li
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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