Conference noted::atm

896.0. "How to config an Arp Server in DUNIX ...?" by BERFS4::NORD () Tue Apr 08 1997 13:08

	Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and all the times between
	our nice earth knows,


	I will cross-post this entry on the DUNIX- and ATM-conference, 'cause
	I'm unable to locate my problem:



	I have looked in both of these conferences and it seems, that I'm the
	first one, who has the problem to configure different GIGAswitches/ATM
	and different systems in different locations, so that all will be great
	and functional network.

	The first I stumbled over is, that our GS/ATM didn't support the "arp
	server"-functionality. Reading the documentation of some other ATM-
	switch-vendors, there seems to be no problem for their switches to act
	as the "arp server" (unfortunatly the customer has selected DEC for
	the switch vendor). And that's my problem:

	I've look in both conferences, but either I'm blind or there is now
	entry:
	How to set up a Digital UNIX system V4.0x to act as a "arp server"?

	Having never done such a nice thing befor and will not have the time
	at the customer side to play some games with the GS/ATM and the DUNIX-
	systems, but having setup some systems at a other customer side
	(connected to Ciscos Lightstreams 1010 and the customer is happy),
	I think I'm a little familiar with configuring ATM on DUNIX.

	I need one arp server per ip-network, I will have two ip networks.
	I will have five GS/ATM, two in one ip network, one in in the other
	ip network, I will have nineteen systems, most of them connected to
	both ip networks via the GS/ATMs.

	So the questions are:
	What do I have to do, to configure one or more systems as an arp server?
	What do I have to do, to configure the GS/ATMs so they know about the
	arp server?
	I want to use ILMI on all the other systems if it is possible, is ILMI
	enabled per default on the GS/ATMs? Where to look to get this
	information?


	Ok, ok, ok, I have asked many questions and didn't know how complex it
	is to answer to them, but it is the problem of the missed documentation,
	so I have to ask the questions here and not to a book or some papers.


	Many thanks in advance for some helping hands and hinds.


	Wolfgang Nord

	MCS@BEO@GERMANY
	

    atmarp -c lis=0 driver=lta0
    ifconfig lis0 <ip-address> netmask <netmask> up
    atmarp -h lis=0 server
    
    Refer to the atmarp(8) man page for more information.
    
    The switch doesn't need to know anything about ATMARP server.  All it
    does is create SVC's between the hosts.
    
    DIGITAL UNIX and the G/S both enable ILMI by default.
    

>       I want to use ILMI on all the other systems if it is possible, is ILMI
>       enabled per default on the GS/ATMs? Where to look to get this
>       information?

        ILMI is enabled by default on the GS/ATM.  But why do you see it as an
        alternative to an ARP server?  Did you perhaps mean to say LANE?