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ANA-5910/5930/5940
PCI-to-ATM Adapter
User’s Guide
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Trademarks Adaptec, the Adaptec logo, and ANA are trademarks of Adaptec, Inc. which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Windows NT is a trademark, and Windows and Windows 95 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries used under license. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. Changes The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the prepa
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▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Contents 1 Getting Started System Requirements 1-1 Hardware Requirements 1-1 Document Overview 1-3 How to Use This Document 1-3 2 Introducing ATM Networking How ATM Works 2-1 Wide Area Connectivity 2-2 Scaleable bandwidth 2-3 Bandwidth guarantees 2-3 Node Identification 2-3 Virtual Channel Connections (VCCs) 2-4 ATM SONET/SDH Support 2-4 25.6 Mbit/sec ATM 2-5 Classical TCP/IP 2-5 Classical IP Operational Summary 2-6 Classical IP over ATM 2-7 LAN Emulation 2-8 LAN Emulation Clients
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide Connecting to the ANA-5940 3-5 4 Installing ATM Version 4.0x Software for Windows NT Installation for Windows NT (version 4.0) 4-1 Installing LANE Device Drivers 4-2 Installing The ATM Utilities 4-7 Installation for Windows NT (version 3.51) 4-8 Installing LANE Device Drivers 4-8 Installing The ATM Utilities 4-13 Using Device Drivers and Utilities 4-14 Stopping ATM Drivers 4-14 Starting ATM Drivers 4-14 Locating Files and Directories 4-19 5 Installing ATM Version
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Contents Using Frame Types with Novell NetWare 6-4 7 Installing ATM Software for Windows 95 Automatically Installing Adaptec ATM Software for Windows 95 7-1 Installing Adaptec ATM Client Drivers for Windows 95 7-3 Configuring the Adapter 7-4 Removing Adaptec ATM Software for Windows 95 7-5 8 Installing ATM Software for Novell NetWare Installing Adaptec ATM Software for NetWare 3.12 8-1 Installing the ATM Software 8-1 Configuring the ATM Software 8-3 Automatically Loading the ATM Driver 8-6 Auto
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide A Product Features and Specifications Features A-1 ANA-5910/5930/5940 Hardware A-1 ANA-5910/5930/5940 Software A-3 Features Summary A-4 Specifications A-5 Environment A-5 PCI Interface A-5 UTP and STP Interface (ANA-5910/5930) A-6 MMF Optical Interface (ANA-5940) A-7 B Windows NT Specific Error Messages and Diagnostics Error Messages B-1 Diagnostics Error Messages B-3 Driver Console Error Messages B-4 Diagnostics B-11 Database File Parameters B-14 SNMP Agent B-16
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▼▼▼ ▼ 1 Getting Started This document contains information on installing and configuring ® ™ the Adaptec ANA -5910/5930/5940 adapters. These adapters provide the interface between your computer’s PCI bus and a network that uses Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Procedures in this document describe installing the adapter, installing and configuring the adapter drivers, and performing administrative and management functions for your ATM network. Note: The procedures in this document assume t
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide ■ Connecting cable (see Appendix A, Product Features and Specifications, for additional cable specifications): Adapter Model Cable ANA-5910 STP, UTP 3, or better ANA-5930 UTP 5 ANA-5940 MMF Adaptec does not claim to have included in this document every condition or situation that might require a caution or warning notice. Be sure to consult the documentation for your computer and any connected equipment when you are installing the equipment or changing its co
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Getting Started Document Overview How to Use This Document To use this document, first scan this chapter for an overview of this document. Next read Chapter 2, Introducing ATM Networking, for a description of ATM and how the ANA-5910/5930/5940 adapters fit into an ATM network. Then follow the instructions in Chapter 3, Installing the Adapter, for installing the adapter and connecting ATM UTP/STP or MMF. After you install the hardware, install and configure the ATM software for the operating
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▼▼▼ ▼ 2 Introducing ATM Networking As a technology, ATM represents a sharp departure from LAN alternatives such as traditional Ethernets that typically rely on shared transmission media. That is, with Ethernet, several nodes often contend for the right to transmit over shared cable segments that support only one transmission at a time. When a node successfully captures the media, it transmits its message at the maximum allowed speed, completely consuming the media. However, even in th
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide native wide area connectivity, scaleable bandwidth, and bandwidth guarantees. Figure 2-1. ATM Networking Wide Area Connectivity International telephone companies have standardized ATM to support their domestic telephone voice traffic. As nations deploy their individual ATM networks, ATM’s standard definition makes it easy to interconnect these various ATM networks into a cooperative integrated global network. 2-2
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Introducing ATM Networking Scaleable bandwidth ATM defines how ATM end-stations, such as your PC or workstation, connect to ATM switches and how ATM switches interconnect with each other. Because these various connections consist of dedicated links, their construction (metal wire or fiber optic) and the transmission speed they support may vary from link to link. When connections require higher speed, it is usually easy to upgrade the connection without disrupting other network nodes and
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide To communicate with another node, an initiating node must initiate a signaling request to the signaling Virtual Channel Connection (VCC) residing within the local switch. Virtual Channel Connections (VCCs) Virtual Channel Connections (VCCs) are either constructed manually or constructed by both nodes and all intervening switches. Manually constructed connections are called Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs) and must be manually deconstructed. With Switched
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Introducing ATM Networking ATM uses SONET and SHD technology to reduce costs while achieving high transmission rates. Essentially, ATM combines multiple STS-1 frames into STS superframes (STS-Nc, where N stands for some integer value) and likewise for STM-1 frames. Transmitting 8,000 single STS-1 frames at telephone company in a second, referred to as STS-1 transmission, produces a 51.84 Mbit/sec transmission rate. An STS-3C transmission transmits 8,000 STS-3c superframes in a second, ea
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide numerous interconnected networks. This section introduces the TCP/IP protocol suite which ATM necessarily supports untouched. Application Native App. For example, UDP TCP an MPEG-II accesses IP application AAL accesses directly LAN Emulation Classical IP AAL 5 directly for video Signalling transmission ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) ATM Layer Physical Layer SONET and SDH 25.6-Mbit/sec ATM MMF UTP STP ATM Model Classical IP Operational Summary Within workstations, a
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Introducing ATM Networking stands for User Datagram Protocol. Both TCP and UDP have associated processes and applications that produce the messages and streams TCP and UDP receive and deliver. While TCP provides a reliable data transport mechanism to host applications including checksums, UDP provides applications-specific IP addresses but only provides its applications access only to IP’s connectionless, unreliable delivery. Classical IP over ATM Within contemporary networks, host IP so
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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide LAN Emulation Clearly, ATM’s connection-oriented approach for communication is distinctly different from the broadcast-oriented approach traditional LANs use. ATM LAN Emulation, an industry-standard facility all Adaptec ATM adapters support, provides necessary mechanisms to address this requirement. LAN emulation allows ATM networks to provide all services available within legacy LAN environments. With LAN emulation, ATM networks use their facilities to mim
