The UNI specification defines communications between ATM endpoints (such as workstations and routers) and switch routers in private ATM networks. The format of the UNI cell header is shown in Figure C-1.
Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) performs standard loopback (end-to-end or segment) and fault detection and notification (alarm indication signal [AIS] and remote defect identification [RDI]) for each connection. It also maintains a group of timers for the OAM functions. When there is an OAM state change such as loopback failure, OAM software notifies the connection management software. You can enable or disable OAM operation for the following switch router components:
The entire switch router
A specific ATM interface
Each ATM connection
Figure C-3 shows the format of the OAM loopback cell.
350 bits that are specific to the OAM type are divided into the following elements:
Loopback indicator—A bit that is set to 1 before the cell is looped back. The loopback node then sets the bit to 0, indicating it has been looped back.
Correlation tag—Identifies (correlates) related OAM cells within the same connection.
Loopback location ID—An optional field that identifies the site that is to loopback the cell.
Source ID—An optional field that identifies the site generating the cell.
Identifier related standard/application—Each application requiring a different set or structure of identifiers (coded in octet 6 and possibly in subsequent octet groups) should use a different value of octet 5.
Identifier type—This value is independent of the identifier related standard/application field, octet 5. The maximum length is 20 octets.
Identifier length—A binary number indicating the length in octets of the identifier code in the subsequent octets of the octet group.
Identifier value—Value of an identifier according to the recommendation or the standard identifier in octet 5.
The LAN emulation data frame for Ethernet is based on ISO 8802.3/CSMA-CD (IEEE 802.3) and is used to provide connectivity between ATM attached end systems and LAN attached stations.
Figure C-5 shows the format of the LANE data frame.
LE header—Contains either the LAN emulation client identifier value, the sending client, or X'0000'.
Destination address.
Source address.
Type information—Logical link control (LLC) data frames whose total length, including the LLC field and data, but not including padding required to meet minimum data frame length, is less than 1536 (X"0600"). It must be encoded by placing the length value in the type/length field. LLC data frames longer than the maximum must be encoded by placing the value 0 in the type/length field.
