Chapter 5

ATM LANE and SPANS Administration

Overview

About this chapter

This chapter outlines the features and concepts of ATM and describes the key components of an Emulated LAN (ELAN), including the LAN Emulation Client (LEC), LAN Emulation Server (LES), LAN Emulation Configuration Server (LECS), and Broadcast and Unknown Server (BUS). It also describes how to use FORE/IP over SPANS.

Chapter contents

This chapter discusses the following topics.

• "Overview of ATM" describes the key features and concepts of ATM and ATM LANE.
• "ATM LANE" and subsequent sections describes the key components of an ELAN (Emulated Local Area Network), including the LEC, LES, LECS, and BUS, and how to configure an ELAN.
• "FORE/IP over SPANS" describes how to configure ATM PVCs (Permanent Virtual Circuits).

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