Panasonic 1200N manual Setting up LAN Emulation, Netnex 8550-LES

Setting up LAN EmulationBasic Configuration and Setup

Setting up LAN Emulation

The following shows an example of LAN emulation with two ATM switches interconnected and a LAN emulation client attached to each switch.

LAN emulation, as its name suggests, emulates an Ethernet LAN environment and is also known as MAC over ATM. Various protocols such as TCP/IP, Netware IPX, and Appletalk can be transported over the Ethernet. In this section we will assume that a successful LAN emulation environment is built by confirming a TCP/IP connection with a ping command between clients.

LAN emulation requires a LAN Emulation Service within an emulated LAN to provide services for features of a shared media network which have to be specially emulated in a switched network, such as address resolution or broadcast message. An example is a broadcast message. An example is a broadcast message. A LAN emulation service consists of three servers: LAN Emulation Configuration Server (LECS), LAN Emulation Server (LES), and Broadcast/Unknown Server (BUS). All of these three servers are implemented in software within an 8550 switch interface card/or module which is not currently available for a product release.

					IP address:	133.205.8.39
			PC
			LEC
Port 01, network				UNI 3.0
	NETNEX 8550-LES
	#1				Network Prefix:	470079-00000000000000000000
					LECS ATM address:	470079-00000000000000000000-777777777777-00
		Clock: MASTER			LES ATM address:	470079-00000000000000000000-888888888888-00
					BUS ATM address:	470079-00000000000000000000-999999999999-00
					IP address:	133.205.8.10
Port 00, network				PNNI 0.5
					Network Prefix:	470079-11111111111111111111
Port 00, user
		NETNEX 8550			IP address:	133.205.8.1
		#2
Port 03, network				UNI 3.0
					IP address:	133.205.8.xx
			PC
		LEC/MAT

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