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2                              READ ME FISRT
3		  ATM (i)Chip IA Linux Driver Source
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5                     Read This Before You Begin!
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8Description
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10
11This is the README file for the Interphase PCI ATM (i)Chip IA Linux driver 
12source release.
13
14The features and limitations of this driver are as follows:
15    - A single VPI (VPI value of 0) is supported.
16    - Supports 4K VCs for the server board (with 512K control memory) and 1K 
17      VCs for the client board (with 128K control memory).
18    - UBR, ABR and CBR service categories are supported.
19    - Only AAL5 is supported. 
20    - Supports setting of PCR on the VCs. 
21    - Multiple adapters in a system are supported.
22    - All variants of Interphase ATM PCI (i)Chip adapter cards are supported, 
23      including x575 (OC3, control memory 128K , 512K and packet memory 128K, 
24      512K and 1M), x525 (UTP25) and x531 (DS3 and E3). See 
25      http://www.iphase.com/
26      for details.
27    - Only x86 platforms are supported.
28    - SMP is supported.
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30
31Before You Start
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34
35Installation
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37
381. Installing the adapters in the system
39   To install the ATM adapters in the system, follow the steps below.
40       a. Login as root.
41       b. Shut down the system and power off the system.
42       c. Install one or more ATM adapters in the system.
43       d. Connect each adapter to a port on an ATM switch. The green 'Link' 
44          LED on the front panel of the adapter will be on if the adapter is 
45          connected to the switch properly when the system is powered up.
46       e. Power on and boot the system.
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482. [ Removed ]
49
503. Rebuild kernel with ABR support
51   [ a. and b. removed ]
52    c. Reconfigure the kernel, choose the Interphase ia driver through "make 
53       menuconfig" or "make xconfig".
54    d. Rebuild the kernel, loadable modules and the atm tools. 
55    e. Install the new built kernel and modules and reboot.
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574. Load the adapter hardware driver (ia driver) if it is built as a module
58       a. Login as root.
59       b. Change directory to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/atm.
60       c. Run "insmod suni.o;insmod iphase.o"
61	  The yellow 'status' LED on the front panel of the adapter will blink 
62          while the driver is loaded in the system.
63       d. To verify that the 'ia' driver is loaded successfully, run the 
64          following command:
65
66              cat /proc/atm/devices
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68          If the driver is loaded successfully, the output of the command will 
69          be similar to the following lines:
70
71              Itf Type    ESI/"MAC"addr AAL(TX,err,RX,err,drop) ...
72              0   ia      xxxxxxxxx  0 ( 0 0 0 0 0 )  5 ( 0 0 0 0 0 )
73
74          You can also check the system log file /var/log/messages for messages
75          related to the ATM driver.
76
775. Ia Driver Configuration 
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795.1 Configuration of adapter buffers
80    The (i)Chip boards have 3 different packet RAM size variants: 128K, 512K and
81    1M. The RAM size decides the number of buffers and buffer size. The default 
82    size and number of buffers are set as following: 
83
84          Total    Rx RAM   Tx RAM   Rx Buf   Tx Buf   Rx buf   Tx buf
85         RAM size   size     size     size     size      cnt      cnt
86         --------  ------   ------   ------   ------   ------   ------
87           128K      64K      64K      10K      10K       6        6
88           512K     256K     256K      10K      10K      25       25
89             1M     512K     512K      10K      10K      51       51
90
91       These setting should work well in most environments, but can be
92       changed by typing the following command: 
93 
94           insmod <IA_DIR>/ia.o IA_RX_BUF=<RX_CNT> IA_RX_BUF_SZ=<RX_SIZE> \
95                   IA_TX_BUF=<TX_CNT> IA_TX_BUF_SZ=<TX_SIZE> 
96       Where:
97            RX_CNT = number of receive buffers in the range (1-128)
98            RX_SIZE = size of receive buffers in the range (48-64K)
99            TX_CNT = number of transmit buffers in the range (1-128)
100            TX_SIZE = size of transmit buffers in the range (48-64K)
101
102            1. Transmit and receive buffer size must be a multiple of 4.
103            2. Care should be taken so that the memory required for the
104               transmit and receive buffers is less than or equal to the
105               total adapter packet memory.   
106
1075.2 Turn on ia debug trace
108
109    When the ia driver is built with the CONFIG_ATM_IA_DEBUG flag, the driver 
110    can provide more debug trace if needed. There is a bit mask variable, 
111    IADebugFlag, which controls the output of the traces. You can find the bit 
112    map of the IADebugFlag in iphase.h. 
113    The debug trace can be turn on through the insmod command line option, for 
114    example, "insmod iphase.o IADebugFlag=0xffffffff" can turn on all the debug 
115    traces together with loading the driver.
116
1176. Ia Driver Test Using ttcp_atm and PVC
118
119   For the PVC setup, the test machines can either be connected back-to-back or 
120   through a switch. If connected through the switch, the switch must be 
121   configured for the PVC(s).
122
123   a. For UBR test:
124      At the test machine intended to receive data, type:
125         ttcp_atm -r -a -s 0.100 
126      At the other test machine, type:
127         ttcp_atm -t -a -s 0.100 -n 10000
128      Run "ttcp_atm -h" to display more options of the ttcp_atm tool.
129   b. For ABR test:
130      It is the same as the UBR testing, but with an extra command option:
131         -Pabr:max_pcr=<xxx>
132         where:
133             xxx = the maximum peak cell rate, from 170 - 353207.
134         This option must be set on both the machines.
135   c. For CBR test:
136      It is the same as the UBR testing, but with an extra command option:
137         -Pcbr:max_pcr=<xxx>
138         where:
139             xxx = the maximum peak cell rate, from 170 - 353207.
140         This option may only be set on the transmit machine.
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143OUTSTANDING ISSUES
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148Contact Information
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