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* adding tcpdump/OAM support to usb ATM devices
@ 2008-04-27 21:31 Jeremy Jackson
  2008-04-27 21:35 ` David Miller
  2008-04-28 14:18 ` Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Jackson @ 2008-04-27 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

who cares about ATM?  Well anyone using ADSL/2/2+ high speed internet
access is stuck with it, and that's not a small number of people.

Diagnosing problems is often complicated by the fact that large backhaul
networks appear as only 1 IP hop in traceroute.

The goal is to support sending and receiving F5 OAM cells on a Linux
host, from in-use PVCs bound to a br2684 bridge, your typical USB ADSL
modem.  The ATM OAM segment "ping" can be useful in troubleshooting, yet
few modems support it, and *none* return timing and other detailed
information.

The modems running embedded Linux internally (openwrt AR7 for example)
could also use this.

The question: what is the recommended way to push the captured cells to
userspace?  raw ATM socket, netlink, packet socket, i'm not up to speed
here people!

in 2.6.22 drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c::usbatm_extract_one_cell()

cells received for open PVC/SVC sockets are processed, however OAM cells
are dropped, and cells to unbound VPI/VCI are dropped.

This seems the likely place to route cells somewhere useful, but what
mechanism to use?

-- 
Jeremy Jackson
Coplanar Networks
(519)489-4903
http://www.coplanar.net
jerj@coplanar.net


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2008-04-27 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 22:35   ` Jeremy Jackson
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2008-04-28 15:54   ` Jeremy Jackson
2008-04-29 12:04     ` Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)

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