NAME¶
br2684ctl - RFC1483/2684 Bridge Daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
br2684ctl [
-b ] [[
-c n ] [
-e 0|1 ] [
-p 0|1 ] [
-s sndbuf ] [
-a [itf].vpi.vci ]] ...
PARAMETERS¶
- -a [itf].vpi.vci
- ATM PVC number, VPI and VCI. (Required)
- -b
- Puts the process in the background.
- -c n
- br2684 interface number such as 0, 1, ... (Required)
- -e 0|1
- Encapsulation method: 0=LLC, 1=VC mux (the default is 0 or
LLC)
- -p 0|1
- Payload method: 0=Routed, 1=Bridged (the default is 1 or
Bridged)
- -s sndbuf
- Send buffer size. Default is 8192.
DESCRIPTION¶
br2684ctl handles RFC1483/2684 bridged PDUs. This is most often used in ADSL
scenarios where
usually the subscribers' ethernet traffic is
encapsulated in ATM AAL5 (by bridging ADSL modems) according to RFC2684. The
subscriber-side ADSL modem can be external with an ethernet connector or an
internal ADSL card in a PC. RFC1483 has been obsoleted by RFC2684.
For example it is possible to set up your Linux box to handle several ATM PVC's
with bridged-1483 (sometimes referred as SNAP) encapsulation. The Linux
network stack might provide DHCP, IP masquerading, IP firewall services or
bridge the Ethernet frames just like it had several ethernet interfaces. In
fact it can have several (logical) ethernet interfaces, where ATM is just used
as a carrier.
USAGE¶
br2684ctl creates a new network interface named nas[n] which is bound to an
specific ATM PVC. It requires two mandatory arguments: -c, the interface
number, and -a, the ATM PVC. It should be noted that the order of the command
arguments matter; -c should be followed by -a. You can create as many
interfaces as necessary in one go, just make a long command line ;)
For example, following command will create a nas0 interface which uses the ATM
PVC with VPI=0 and VCI=401. You need to configure the PVC connection 0.401 on
the ATM switch manually.
% br2684ctl -c 0 -a 0.401
The command will only create a new interface nas0. Next step is to assign an IP
address and netmask to the interface nas0 using the ifconfig command. Using
ifconfig, you can also assign a Ethernet MAC address to the interface nas0, if
necessary.
% ifconfig nas0 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Messages are logged to the LOCAL2 syslog facility.
FILES¶
/var/run/br2684ctl-<iface>.pid
NOTES¶
This man page is based on a tutorial by by Joonbum Byun
<jbyun@megaxess.com>
SEE ALSO¶
qos(7)