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1 | Frame Relay (FR) support for linux is built into a two tiered system of device |
2 | drivers. The upper layer implements RFC1490 FR specification, and uses the | |
3 | Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI) as its hardware address. Usually these | |
4 | are assigned by your network supplier, they give you the number/numbers of | |
5 | the Virtual Connections (VC) assigned to you. | |
6 | ||
7 | Each DLCI is a point-to-point link between your machine and a remote one. | |
8 | As such, a separate device is needed to accommodate the routing. Within the | |
9 | net-tools archives is 'dlcicfg'. This program will communicate with the | |
10 | base "DLCI" device, and create new net devices named 'dlci00', 'dlci01'... | |
11 | The configuration script will ask you how many DLCIs you need, as well as | |
12 | how many DLCIs you want to assign to each Frame Relay Access Device (FRAD). | |
13 | ||
14 | The DLCI uses a number of function calls to communicate with the FRAD, all | |
15 | of which are stored in the FRAD's private data area. assoc/deassoc, | |
16 | activate/deactivate and dlci_config. The DLCI supplies a receive function | |
17 | to the FRAD to accept incoming packets. | |
18 | ||
19 | With this initial offering, only 1 FRAD driver is available. With many thanks | |
20 | to Sangoma Technologies, David Mandelstam & Gene Kozin, the S502A, S502E & | |
21 | S508 are supported. This driver is currently set up for only FR, but as | |
22 | Sangoma makes more firmware modules available, it can be updated to provide | |
23 | them as well. | |
24 | ||
25 | Configuration of the FRAD makes use of another net-tools program, 'fradcfg'. | |
26 | This program makes use of a configuration file (which dlcicfg can also read) | |
27 | to specify the types of boards to be configured as FRADs, as well as perform | |
28 | any board specific configuration. The Sangoma module of fradcfg loads the | |
29 | FR firmware into the card, sets the irq/port/memory information, and provides | |
30 | an initial configuration. | |
31 | ||
32 | Additional FRAD device drivers can be added as hardware is available. | |
33 | ||
34 | At this time, the dlcicfg and fradcfg programs have not been incorporated into | |
35 | the net-tools distribution. They can be found at ftp.invlogic.com, in | |
36 | /pub/linux. Note that with OS/2 FTPD, you end up in /pub by default, so just | |
37 | use 'cd linux'. v0.10 is for use on pre-2.0.3 and earlier, v0.15 is for | |
38 | pre-2.0.4 and later. | |
39 |