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@@ -7,17 +7,17 @@
.Nm natm
.Nd Native Mode ATM protocol layer
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The BSD ATM software comes with a
-.Em native mode ATM protocol layer
+The BSD ATM software comes with a
+.Em native mode ATM protocol layer
which provides socket level access to AAL0 and AAL5 virtual circuits.
-To enable this protocol layer, add
+To enable this protocol layer, add
.Dl options NATM
to your kernel configuration file and re-make the kernel (don't forget
-to do
+to do
.Dq make clean
).
.Sh NATM API
-The NATM layer uses a
+The NATM layer uses a
.Dv struct sockaddr_natm
to specify a virtual circuit:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -49,29 +49,29 @@ one would use the following:
/* s now connected to ATM! */
.Ed
.Pp
-The
+The
.Fn socket
call simply creates an unconnected NATM socket. The
.Fn connect
call associates an unconnected NATM socket with a
virtual circuit and tells the driver to enable that virtual circuit
-for receiving data. After the
+for receiving data. After the
.Fn connect
-call one can
+call one can
.Fn read
-or
+or
.Fn write
to the socket to perform ATM I/O.
.Sh Internal NATM operation
Internally, the NATM protocol layer keeps a list of all active virtual
-circuits on the system in
-.Dv natm_pcbs .
+circuits on the system in
+.Dv natm_pcbs .
This includes circuits currently being used for IP to prevent NATM and
IP from clashing over virtual circuit usage.
.Pp
When a virtual circuit is enabled for receiving data, the NATM
protocol layer passes the address of the protocol control block down
-to the driver as a receive
+to the driver as a receive
.Dq handle .
When inbound data arrives, the driver passes the data back with the
appropriate receive handle. The NATM layer uses this to avoid the
@@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ is pretty rapid (in fact, it is massive!), and the normal AAL0
handling of the driver is unable to handle it (you end up with a cell
per small mbuf trying to make it to the application ... it turns out
the socket layer can't keep up with that sort of data stream). To
-solve this problem we have implemented a
+solve this problem we have implemented a
.Dq raw
mode which batches unprocessed AAL0 info from the card into larger
data chunks blocks. We can save this data to disk in real-time
without the socket layer freaking out. Unfortunately, the data has
RBD (receive buffer descriptors) and cells headers in it, and this has
-to be filtered out after capture.
-To enable
+to be filtered out after capture.
+To enable
.Dq raw
mode one does the following ioctl:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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