Ubuntu Manpage: zeppelin - ATM LAN Emulation client demon (LED) Zeppelin

NAME

       zeppelin - ATM LAN Emulation client demon (LED) Zeppelin

SYNOPSIS

       zeppelin  [-b ]  [-c LECS_address | -s LES_address] [-e esi] [-n VLAN_name] [-m mesg_mask]
       [-l listen_address | selector]    [-i interface_number]     [-I physical_interface_number]
       [-t 1516|1580|4544|9234|18190] [-1 ] [-2 ] [-p ] [-F logfile] [-f Fore_specific_name]

DESCRIPTION

       A  LAN  Emulation  Client is an entity in an ATM endstation that performs data forwarding,
       address  resolution  and  other  control  functions.  It  uses  the  LUNI  interface  when
       communicating  with other components in emulated LANs. It provides upper protocol layers a
       MAC like interface similar to IEEE 802.3/Ethernet or IEEE 802.5/Token Ring LAN.

       LAN Emulation client code is divided into two parts: user space application LAN  Emulation
       Demon  called  (LED)  zeppelin(8),  and  the kernel component. Zeppelin is responsible for
       control operations needed in LAN Emulation clienthood. It forms  the  necessary  VCCs  and
       receives all the LE control frames and acts accordingly. It also controls the operation of
       the LEC kernel component.

       Linux LEC supports only Ethernet type of emulated LAN.

       SIGHUP causes restart of the LEC. All resources are released and zeppelin is started.

OPTIONS

-b Run in background (i.e. in a forked child process) after initializing kernel
interface.

-c LECS_address
ATM address of lecs(8) (Lan Emulation Configuration Server), if not set, Well-Known
server address is used.

-s LES_address
ATM address of les(8) (Lan Emulation Server), can be used in bypassing
configuration phase in joining emulated Lan i.e lecs address is not used.

-e esi Mac address to use when communicating in Emulated LAN. E.g. 00:20:22:23:04:05 .

-n VLAN_name
Name of the virtual LAN to which joining is requested. This is used in
LE_CONFIGURE_REQUEST to LECS or LE_JOIN_RESPONSE to LES, if configuration phase is
bypassed.

-m mesg_mask
Sometimes one wants to know more what is happening in LE daemon e.g. when nothing
works. This is a hexadecimal long value setting global message mask. 0 = No
messages, ffff = All messages.

-l listen_address | selector
Local ATM address that zeppelin uses as local binding point in signalling. Use this
if you are running more than one client or a set of LE servers. The local ATM
address can be specified by either giving the full ATM address or the desired
selector byte.

-i interface_number
Linux LEC supports up to 40+8 network interfaces. The interface_number tells
zeppelin to which of these to attach. Ethernet type network interfaces are numbered
from "lec0" to "lec39" and Token Ring interfaces are from "lec40" to "lec47". These
parameters are tweakable during the kernel compile, see <linux/atmlec.h>.

-I physical_interface_number
The physical interface this LANE client should bind to. If your host has multiple
ATM network cards, you can use this option to choose which card this zeppelin will
use.

-t MTU The MTU of ELAN to join. You need to also use ifconfig(8) to set the MTU of the
LANE interface.

-1 Run as LANEv1 client. This is the default.

-2 Run as LANEv2 client. This is required by MPOA.

-p Enable proxy. When started with this option, it is possible to bridge packets
between ATM and Ethernet. That is, you can use LANE interfaces with normal
bridging. See the Bridging mini-Howto for more info.

-F logfile
Instead of writing debug messages to stderr, write the messages to the file
logfile. Use syslog as the file name to use the syslog(3) facility.

-f Fore specific name
The LANE servers on Fore ATM switches can display a special name if a client can
supply one. This name shows with command ´conf lane les show advanced´.

TOKEN RING CONSIDERATIONS

       A number of lec interfaces is reserved for Token Ring ELANs when the  kernel  is  compiled
       with  Token  Ring  (CONFIG_TR)  support. See the discussion about interface_number command
       line option above. The Linux Token Ring LANE client  does  not  support  bridging  between
       legacy  Token  Ring  and ATM parts of the ELAN, so using the -p option is not recommended.
       Token Ring support has received less testing than its Ethernet counterpart.

FILES

       /var/run/lec[interface number].pid
              The file containing the process id of zeppelin.

BUGS

       John Bonham died 1980 and Led Zeppelin broke.

       Please report any other bugs to Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>

AUTHORS

       Marko Kiiskila, TUT <carnil@cs.tut.fi> and Heikki Vatiainen, TUT <hessu@cs.tut.fi>