Fore ATM FAQ



Note: This is under construction. The Getting Started links are all present; many of the other links still need to be created.

Table of Contents

General Information

  1. About this FAQ
  2. What is the Fore philosophy?

Getting Started

  1. What on-line documentation is available?
  2. How are the Fore man pages accessed?
  3. How do I run the (better) example code?

ATM Network Programming

  1. What are the device options and how do they differ?
  2. What is a SAP?
  3. Can qlen be anything other than 0 or 1?
  4. What AALs are supported and how do they differ?
  5. Why is there an AAL3 and an AAL3?
  6. How do the quality of service parameters work?
  7. What happens to cells that violate the traffic contract?
  8. Why does atm_gethostbyname() complain about TCP echo/discard ports?