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HARP | Host ATM Research Platform
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HARP 3
What is this stuff?
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The Advanced Networking Group (ANG) at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center,
Inc. (MSCI), as part of its work on the MAGIC Gigabit Testbed, developed
the Host ATM Research Platform (HARP) software, which allows IP hosts to
communicate over ATM networks using standard protocols. It is intended to
be a high-quality platform for IP/ATM research.
HARP provides a way for IP hosts to connect to ATM networks. It supports
standard methods of communication using IP over ATM. A host's standard IP
software sends and receives datagrams via a HARP ATM interface. HARP provides
functionality similar to (and typically replaces) vendor-provided ATM device
driver software.
HARP includes full source code, making it possible for researchers to
experiment with different approaches to running IP over ATM. HARP is
self-contained; it requires no other licenses or commercial software packages.
HARP implements support for the IETF Classical IP model for using IP over ATM
networks, including:
o IETF ATMARP address resolution client
o IETF ATMARP address resolution server
o IETF SCSP/ATMARP server
o UNI 3.1 and 3.0 signalling protocols
o Fore Systems's SPANS signalling protocol
What's supported
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The following are supported by HARP 3:
o ATM Host Interfaces
- FORE Systems, Inc. SBA-200 and SBA-200E ATM SBus Adapters
- FORE Systems, Inc. PCA-200E ATM PCI Adapters
- Efficient Networks, Inc. ENI-155p ATM PCI Adapters
o ATM Signalling Protocols
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.1 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 signalling protocol
- The ATM Forum ILMI address registration
- FORE Systems's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol
- Permanent Virtual Channels (PVCs)
o IETF "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" model
- RFC 1483, "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5"
- RFC 1577, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 1626, "Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5"
- RFC 1755, "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM"
- RFC 2225, "Classical IP and ARP over ATM"
- RFC 2334, "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)"
- Internet Draft draft-ietf-ion-scsp-atmarp-00.txt,
"A Distributed ATMARP Service Using SCSP"
o ATM Sockets interface
- The file atm-sockets.txt contains further information
What's not supported
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The following major features of the above list are not currently supported:
o UNI point-to-multipoint support
o Driver support for Traffic Control/Quality of Service
o SPANS multicast and MPP support
o SPANS signalling using Efficient adapters
This software was developed under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Reviewed (lightly) by: phk
Submitted by: Network Computing Services, Inc.
addresses by default.
Add a knob "icmp_bmcastecho" to "rc.network" to allow this
behaviour to be controlled from "rc.conf".
Document the controlling sysctl variable "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho"
in sysctl(3).
Reviewed by: dg, jkh
Reminded on -hackers by: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>
Convert autoconf hooks from old SCSI system to CAM.
busdma_machdep.c:
bus_dmamap_free() should expect the nobounce map, not a NULL one.
mountroot.c:
swapgeneric.c:
da and od changes.
symbols.raw:
Nuke the old disk stat symbols.
userconfig.c:
Disable the SCSI listing code until it can be converted to CAM.
splhigh() after any system dumps have completed. SHUTDOWN_POST_SYNC
isn't quite late enough for disk controllers.
Converted at_shutdown queues to use the queue(3) macros.
Host ATM Research Platform (HARP), Network Computing Services, Inc.
This software was developed with the support of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
- Convert to CAM
- Use a new DMA based queuing and paging scheme
- Add preliminary target mode support
- Add support for the aic789X chips
- Take advantage of external SRAM on more controllers.
- Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.
and set_regs() but for the floating point register state. The code
is stolen from procfs_machdep.c, and moved out of there into
machdep.c.
These functions are needed for generating ELF core dumps.
the relevant characteristics of the native machine, for building
and checking Elf_Ehdr structures.
Add structures to represent ELF "note" headers. Add defines for the
note types used in ELF core files.
- Use format-independant module allocator.
- Conditionalise ISA PnP support.
- Simplify PnP enumerator interface.
- Improve module/object searching.
- Add missing depend/install targets in BTX makefiles.
- Pass the kernel environment and module data in extended bootinfo fields.
- Add a pointer to the end of the kernel + modules in bootinfo.
- Fix parsing of old-style kernel arguments.
as "machdep.msgbuf". It's needed in case of using stripped kernels, where
normal dmesg (which has to use kvm) doesn't work.
The buffer is unwound, meaning that the data will be linear, possibly
with some leading NULLs.
Reviewed by: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
object format of the executable being dumped. This is the first
step toward producing ELF core dumps in the proper format. I will
commit the code to generate the ELF core dumps Real Soon Now. In
the meantime, ELF executables won't dump core at all. That is
probably no less useful than dumping a.out-style core dumps as they
have done until now.
Submitted by: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> (with very minor changes by me)
surprisingly few problems. Most fields were initialized to the
correct values by bzero(), but lk_prio was 0 instead of PINOD (=8),
the lk_wmsg was NULL instead of "ext2in", and lk_lockholder was 0
instead of -1.
Obtained from: Lite2 via the -current ffs_vfsops.c
standard places ("/etc/objformat", ${OBJFORMAT}, argv) for an
indication of the user's preferred object file format. This
consolidates some code that was starting to be duplicated in more
and more places.
Use the new function in ldconfig.
Note: I don't think that gcc should use getobjformat(), even though
it could. The compiler should limit itself to functions that are
widespread, to ease porting and cross-compilation.
transmitter is wedged. If so, try to unwedge it, process any descriptors
that might need to be free()d, then proceed.
- Disable the 'background' autonegotiation performed during bootstrap.
What happens currently is that the driver starts an autoneg session,
the sets a timeout in the ifnet structure and returns. Later, when the
timer expires, the watchdog routine calls the autoneg handler to check
the results of the session. The problem with this is that the session
may not complete until some point after we have started to mount NFS
filesystems, which can cause the mounts to fail. This is especially
troublesome if booting with an NFS rootfs: we need the interface up
and running before reaching the mountroot() code.
The default behavior now is to do the autoneg synchronously, i.e. wait
5 seconds for the autoneg to complete before exiting the driver attach
routine. People who want the old behavior can compile the driver with
XL_BACKGROUND_AUTONEG #defined. This has no effect on autoneg sessions
initiated by 'ifconfig xl0 media autoselect.'
This slows the probe down a little, but it's either that or botching
NFS mounts at bootup.
- If xl_setmode_mii() is called and there's an autoneg session in progress,
cancel it, _then_ set the modes.
