An ATM User Device is identified by:

The

first 13 bytes of the

network

prefix, which are the same for

all

user devices attached to

an ATM

subsystem, plus

A 6-byte End System IdentifierESI ), unique( within the ATM

Subsystem, plus

A 1-byte Selector field that may be used by the user device.

The 6416SW passes the network prefix of an ATM address to attached end systems using the Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI) protocol.

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