ATM Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide

Installing and Conﬁguring the ATM Software

Conﬁguring the ATM Card Parameters

Chapter 220

Conﬁguring the ATM Card Parameters

The following steps describe how to conﬁgure the ATM card adapters.

Step 1. Log in as root.

Step 2. Type sam to start up the System Administration Manager (SAM) utility.

Step 3. Select the “Networking and Communications” icon (double-click the icon,

or choose Open from the “Actions” menu) in the SAM main window.

Step 4. Select the “Network Interface Cards” icon (double-click the icon, or

choose Open from the “Actions” menu) from the “Networking and

Communications” window. This displays a list of the adapters currently

installed in the system.

NOTE If you have only one ATM adapter in your system, it is named atm0.

Other ATM adapters in the system are numbered—for example, atm1 or

atm2—but might not be numbered sequentially.

The list of network interface cards that are installed in the system

appears. If you have not conﬁgured the adapter yet, its status is shown

as Not configured. After it is conﬁgured, its status can be either

Enabled or Disabled. A newly installed ATM adapter is shown as Not

configured.

Step 5. Select the newly installed ATM adapter(double-click the adapter’s name,

or choose Configure from the “Actions” menu).

The “Conﬁgure ATM Card Parameters” window appears for ﬁrst-time

conﬁguration.

Step 6. Set the Physical Layer of the adapter to match the ATM network

(SONET or SDH).

Step 7. Set the Network Prefix option to one of the following values:

• From Network if the ATM switch complies with UNI 3.0, 3.1, or 4.0

(and so it supports ILMI). When Network Prefix is set to From

Network, the Network Preﬁx part of the ATM address is

automatically displayed if ILMI is working.