Re: ATM PVC autodiscovery with Marconi/FORE ATM Switch

From: christopher snow (cbsnow31@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 07:36:11 GMT-3


It wont work...Cisco proprietary.

Chris

--- Reinhold Fischer <Reinhold.Fischer@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> hope this is not too offtopic but with more and more
> cheap (non-cisco)
> atm gear popping up on ebay mayebe this issue could
> be of interest to
> this community.
>
> Has anybody gotten atm pvc autodiscovery to work
> with Marconi
> (former FORE Systems) ATM switches? I am having a
> hard time here
> to get it done. ILMI is working fine and a debug
> "atm pvcd" tells
> me that it has discovered 8 PVCs on the link. But
> the PVCs never
> show up in 'show atm pvc' - just the ILMI PVC is
> showing up.
>
> The PVC itself is working fine when manually
> configured. Classical
> IPoverATM with ARP-Server is also working fine.
>
> ATM switch is a Marconi/FORE Systems ASX-200BX
> running FT6.2 Software.
>
> If anyone of you got it working, what Software
> version was running
> on the ATM Switch ?
>
> Is 'atm pvc autodiscovery' a cisco proprietary
> functionality only
> working with cisco atm switches? I've included a few
> debugs that
> show that the Router is querying ATM switch for its
> PVC tables and
> the PVC numbers actually show up in the responses
> from the atm
> switch.
>
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
> Reinhold
>
>
> The setup is as follows:
>
> |---------------------------|
> | ATM Switch FORE ASX-200BX |
> | |
> | Port 1A1 Port 2B1 |
> |---------------------------|
> | |
> | |
> |OC3 |OC3
> |pvc 1/55 |pvc 1/222
> | |
> | |
> |---------------------------|
> | ATM 1/0 ATM 6/0 |
> | |
> | Router Cisco7206 rn3tpu |
> |---------------------------|
>
>
> Information on the ATM Switch:
>
> ax1tpu:-> connections channel show
> Input Output
> AtmIf VPI VCI AtmIf VPI VCI ServCat
> Protocol Name
> 1A1 0 5 1CTL 0 49 nrtVBR
> fsig N/A
> 1A1 0 16 1CTL 0 50 nrtVBR
> fsig N/A
> 1A1 0 337 1B2 0 333 UBR
> pvc testpvc-0/337-0/333
> 1A1 1 55 1B2 1 222 UBR
> pvc testpvc-1/55-1/222
> 1B2 0 5 1CTL 0 39 nrtVBR
> fsig N/A
> 1B2 0 16 1CTL 0 40 nrtVBR
> fsig N/A
> 1B2 0 333 1A1 0 337 UBR
> pvc testpvc-0/333-0/337
> 1B2 1 222 1A1 1 55 UBR
> pvc testpvc-1/222-1/55
>
>
>
>
> And the "debug atm pvcd" output on the cisco router
> after a 'shut/no shut' on the
> atm interface:
>
> PVCD: Removing all dynamic PVCs on ATM1/0
> PVCD: Restoring MIXED PVCs w/ default parms on
> ATM1/0
> PVCD: Marking static PVCs as UNKNWN on ATM1/0
> PVCD: Trying to discover PVCs on ATM1/0...
> PVCD: pvcd_discover_pvcs
> PVCD: pvcd_ping
> PVCD: atmfPortEntry.5.0 = 2
> PVCD: pvcd_getPeerVccTableSize
> PVCD: atmfAtmLayerEntry.5.0 = 8
> PVCD: allocating VccTable size 8
> PVCD: pvcd_getPeerVccTable
>
> PVCD:******* ATM1/0: getNext on atmfVccEntry = NULL
> TYPE/VALUE numFileds = 19 numVccs = 8
>
> PVCD: [1,1] atmfVccEntry.1.1.0.3 = 1
> ....
> ....
> .... (many messages of this kind)
> ....
> ....
> PVCD: [8,19] atmfVccEntry.4.57.0.65 = 4
> PVCD: pvcd_flushGetNextRequestResponse
> 01:31:30: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on
> Interface ATM1/0, changed state to up
> PVCD: Number of responses flushed = 249
>
> PVCD: [1] : 1 2 10 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 5
> 3 65 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [2] : 1 2 10 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 4
> 16 4 72 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [3] : 1 3 10 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
> 333 5 73 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [4] : 1 3 10 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 3
> 32 82 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [5] : 1 4 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 0 6 3 4
> 39 83 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [6] : 1 4 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 0 6 4
> 222 40 4 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [7] : 1 9 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 3 6 3 3
> 49 4 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [8] : 1 9 10 57 6 0 0 0 0 4 6 4 4
> 50 4 4 4 4 4
>
> PVCD: Processing the PeerVccTable of ATM1/0
>
>
> PVCD: [1] : 1 2 10 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 5
> 3 65 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [2] : 1 2 10 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 4
> 16 4 72 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [3] : 1 3 10 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
> 333 5 73 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [4] : 1 3 10 12 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 3
> 32 82 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [5] : 1 4 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 0 6 3 4
> 39 83 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [6] : 1 4 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 0 6 4
> 222 40 4 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [7] : 1 9 10 57 6 1 0 1 0 3 6 3 3
> 49 4 4 4 4 4
> PVCD: [8] : 1 9 10 57 6 0 0 0 0 4 6 4 4
> 50 4 4 4 4 4
>
> PVCD: Marking Local-Only PVCs on ATM1/0
> PVCD: 8 PVC(s) discovered on ATM1/0
> rn3tpu#
>
>
>
> rn3tpu#show atm pvc
> VCD /
> Peak Avg/Min Burst
> Interface Name VPI VCI Type Encaps
> Kbps Kbps Cells Sts
> 1/0 4 0 16 PVC ILMI
> 149760 N/A UP
> 6/0 4 1 222 PVC SNAP
> 149760 N/A UP
> rn3tpu#show atm ilmi-status
>
> Interface : ATM1/0 Interface Type : Private UNI
> (User-side)
> ILMI VCC : (0, 16) ILMI Keepalive : Disabled
> ILMI State: UpAndNormal
> Peer IP Addr: 172.19.224.253 Peer IF Name:
> 1A1
> Peer MaxVPIbits: 10 Peer MaxVCIbits:
> 9
> Active Prefix(s) :
> 39.276f.5000.1200.c114.0439.6511
>
> Interface : ATM6/0 Interface Type : Unknown
> ILMI VCC : (0, 16) ILMI Keepalive : Disabled
> ILMI State: Restarting
> rn3tpu#
>
>
>
> The configuration snippets from the cisco router's
> atm interfaces:
>
> !
> interface ATM1/0
>
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