ATM Common Questions & Answers =============================== General Questions Q: What are the minimum system requirements for Adaptec ATM adapter running under Solaris environment? A: Adaptec ATM adapters running under Solaris required: Solaris v2.3 or v2.4 (which is also known as SunOs 5.3 or v5.4) operating systems. Any Sbus slot in one of the following Sun workstation: SPARCstation LX, IPC, IPX SPARCclassic SPARCstation 2, 4, 5 SPARCstation 10, 20 10 Mbytes of free space in the root directory (or you can specify another directory for most of the files) 16 Mbytes of RAM Motif or OpenWindows environments for using Adaptec EZ-ATM Q: What are the minimum system requirements for Adaptec ATM adapter running under Windows NT environment? A: Adaptec ATM adapters running under Windows NT required: Windows NT 3.5 or 3.51 16 Mbytes of RAM PCI rev. 2.0 compliant computer with +5V PCI slots for the ANA-5910 only and +5V/+12V PCI slots for the ANA-5930/5940 only PCI Bus Master slot 10 Mbytes of free hard disk space Q: What are some of the Software features offered by Adaptec? A: General Software Features include: Support for Classical IP and ARP over ATM (RFC 1577). Full support of ATM Forum's ILMI (Interim Local Management Interface) including address registration and ATM MIB (Management Information Base) statistics GUI and diagnostics. Network Management: SNMP Network Management software with GUI. Includes transparent support for today's applications through Classical IP over ATM (RFC-1577), and LAN Emulation (LEC). Supports up to 1,024 Virtual Channel Identifiers (VCIs). Features user-selectable Peak Cell Rate (PCR) values. Supports SVCs per the ATM Forum UNI 3.0 using Q.93B signaling, and UNI 3.1 using Q.2931 signaling, ensuring interoperability with all UNI-compliant ATM switches. Q: What are some of the Hardware features offered by Adaptec? A: Hardware features offered by Adaptec include: - Adaptec ASIC for ATM support - ATM SAR state machine - On board segmentation and reassembly - Full burst transfer support - Programmable interrupt delay allows batched interrupt processing - Support for Peak Cell Rate (PCR) - DMA master with chained DMA - Buffer RAM for either 128KB or 512KB Q: What types of physical interfaces are available on your adapters? A: Adaptec's Adapters support are: - MMF (155 Mbps) - UTP-5 (155 Mbps) - UTP-3 (25.6) ========================================================================== ANA-52XX Q: "ld.so.:ezAtm:fatal: libMrm.so.2: can't open file: errno=2" A: This error occurs when starting Adaptec EzAtm and indicates that the system cannot locate the necessary library file. Set the following environment: setenv UIDPATH/etc/opt/ADPTezAtm%U setenv UIDPATH/etc/optAdaptec/%U setenv MANPATH /etc/opt/ADPTaatm/man: set LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /etc/opt/ADPTezlib/lib setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH/etc/opt/ADPTezlib/lib Q: The following error message appear when attempt to run ezAtm: ld.so.1:ezAtm:fatal:libMrm.so.2: can't open file:errno=2 killed A: The ezAtm GUI requires shared object libraries for the motif screens. The screens in the GUI look for the libMrm.so.2 and libXm.so.2 libraries. Make a symbolic link from the existing libraries to the required libraries as follows: Change directory to /etc/opt/ADPTezlib. Type the following commands at the prompt: ln -s libXm.so libXm.so.2 ln -s libMrm.so libMrm.so.2 This ensures that the GUI can find the motif libraries. ========================================================================== ANA-52XX & ANA-59XX Q: I get an "Unable to Create Vcc: ATMS Runs Out of BandWidth" error message. A: Change the txpcr and rxpcr parameters in the base.db (and acip.db if necessary) file from 353208 to 56779 to reflect the decrease in PCR transmissions. Q: I get the following errors messages when I attempted to run acip: W5310 no source ip address in arp message W5311 remote station claiming same ip address W5312 message from wrong subnet received A: An invalid ATMARP or inverse ATMARP message was received. Check for conflicts between the IP addresses assigned to each interface. All IP stations must have the same address prefix, i.e., be in the same subnet, for a Classical IP LAN. IP stations in different subnetworks must communicate via a router. Q: One of the following error message is shown in the atm console when I attempted to initialize the aarp driver: W5310 no source ip address in arp message W5311 remote station claiming same ip address W5312 message from wrong subnet received A: An invalid ATMARP or inverse ATMARP message was received. Check for conflicts between the IP addresses assigned to each interface. All IP stations must have the same address prefix, i.e., be in the same subnet, for a Classical IP LAN. IP stations in different subnetworks must communicate via a router. All client in the same network as the aarp sever must have the same network address. For example, if your aarp sever has a network address in the first three byte and 0 in the last byte then all client of that aarp sever must have the same first three byte (network address). Q: When I attempted to run the acip driver, the following error message arise: W5301 arp lookup failed - check pvc configuration A: In a PVC only environment, look up the ATMARP table for the destination IP address failed. As there is no ATMARP server in a PVC only environment, the destination is unreachable. Check that the VPI/VCI numbers are the same on the points and on the switch.