This section describes device-specific configuration operations, and general diagnostic procedures at the ATM or SONET level. Please see the adapter documentation for details on hardware installation and diagnosis.
If you have no real ATM hardware, you can still exercise the API by using the ATM over TCP ``driver''. It emulates ATM devices which are directly wired to remote devices (i.e. there is no VPI/VCI swapping).
To establish one (bidirectional) ``wire'', become root on both systems (or run both sides on the same system to create two connected ``interfaces'') and run the following command on one of them (let's call it ``a''):
Then, on the other system (``b''), runBoth atmtcps will report on their progress and the kernel should display messages like:
and on the two systems. Note that atmtcp keeps running and that interrupting it breaks the virtual wire.Multiple ``wires'' can be attached to the same machine by specifying a port number (default is 2812). Note that no AAL processing is performed. It is therefore not possible to receive data using a different AAL (e.g. AAL0) than the one with which the data was sent.
The ZeitNet ZN1221 and ZN1225 adapters use pre-allocated pools of free memory buffers for receiving. Whenever a VC with a certain maximum SDU size is opened for receiving, the corresponding pool is filled with free buffers by the device driver. The adapter removes buffers while it receives data. When the number of remaining buffers falls below a certain threshold, the device driver replenishes the pool again.
The lower and the upper limits for the number of free buffers, and the threshold for adapting to a new data offset (see below for details), can be set using the zntune program. Usage:
zntune [-l low_water] [-h high_water] [-t threshold] itf [pool]
The changes are applied to all pools if no pool number is specified. Pool 2 stores 64 bytes packets, pool 3 stores 128 bytes packets, etc. Pools 0 and 1 are currently unused.The current settings and some usage statistics can be obtained by invoking zntune without specifying new parameters:
zntune [-z] itf [pool]
The ``Size'' column shows the buffer size in Bytes. The ``Ref'' column shows the number of open VCs using that pool. The ``Alarm'' column shows how many times the number of free buffers has fallen below the low-water mark since the counters were reset. Similarly, the ``Under'' column shows how many times an incoming PDU had to be discarded because the corresponding pool was empty.
The columns ``Offs'', ``NxOf'', ``Count'' and ``Thres'' show the alignment adaption status. ``Offs'' is the offset of user data the driver currently expects in incoming PDUs. For single-copy, receive buffers are aligned accordingly so that data is received at page boundaries. ``NxOf'' is the user data offset of the most recently received PDU, where the offset differs from the currently assumed offset. ``Count'' is the number of PDUs that have been received in sequence with an offset of ``NxOf''. Finally, ``Thres'' is the threshold value ``Count'' has to reach for ``NxOf'' to become the new current offset.
Use the -z option to reset the ``Alarm'' and ``Under'' counters.
Some status information about the ATM subsystem can be obtained through files in /proc/net/atm/. The file /proc/net/atm/arp contains information specific to Classical IP over ATM, see section CLIP.
All active ATM devices are listed in /proc/net/atm/devices. For each device, the interface number, the type label, the end system identifier (ESI), and statistics are shown. The statistics correspond to the ones available via atmdiag.
Individual ATM devices may register entries of the form type:number (e.g. eni:0) which contain device-specific information.
The files /proc/net/atm/pvc and /proc/net/atm/svc list all PVC and SVC sockets. For both types of sockets, the interface, VPI and VCI numbers are shown. For PVCs, this is followed by the AAL and the traffic class and the selected PCR for the receive and the transmit direction. For SVCs, the SVC state and the address of the remote party are shown. SVCs with the interface number 999 are used for special control purposes as indicated in the ``State'' column.
Furthermore, /proc/net/atm/vc shows buffer sizes and additional internal information for all ATM sockets.
Various counters of the ATM device drivers can be queried with the atmdiag program. See the corresponding man page for details.
The SONET diagnostics tool can be used to monitor link performance and to simulate errors. In order to get current SONET statistics, run it with the ATM interface number as the argument, e.g.
The counters can be reset with the -z option:
The following network failures can be simulated:[1]
insert section errors (B1)
insert line errors (B2)
insert path errors (B3)
force (RX) frame loss
insert loss of signal
insert line alarm indication signal
insert path alarm indication signal
insert header checksum errors
A failure is enabled by adding the corresponding keyword on the command line. The failure is cleared by prefixing the keyword with a minus sign, e.g.
a# sonetdiag -z 0 >/dev/null b# sonetdiag -z 0 >/dev/null a# sonetdiag 0 los a# sonetdiag 0 -los b# sonetdiag 0 | grep BIP Section BIP errors: 56200 Line BIP errors: 342 Path BIP errors: 152 a# sonetdiag 0 | grep FEBE Line FEBE: 342 Path FEBE: 152 |
If any diagnostic error insertions are active, their keywords are shown when sonetdiag is used to obtain statistics. Note that some error insertions may be automatically switched off by the hardware.
| [1] | Some adapters may only support a subset of this. |