Chapter 8
OVERVIEW
PACKET MANAGER MENUS
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Packet Manager
The P
M
menu contains submenus that define packet end-
ACKET
ANAGER
points. A packet endpoint is a virtual port within the ATLAS 550 into which
a specified physical port (a T1 or an Nx56/64) terminates its data for further
routing by the system. All packet services, including the ATLAS 550 frame
relay, must have defined packet endpoints.
Your frame relay provider furnishes specific information on defining the
packet endpoint. This information includes signaling type (Annex A,
Annex D, or LMI) and definitions for all active PVCs. The P
submenu map connects protocols from packet endpoint to packet endpoint.
In addition to defining packet endpoints, you must also configure the phys-
ical port before it can run frame relay (see also Chapter 10, Dedicated Maps
and Chapter 11, Dial Plan).
The P
M
menus (see Figure 8-1) define and configure all
ACKET
ANAGER
layer 2 connections, including frame relay endpoints. These submenus, dis-
cussed in this chapter, include P
S
, and F
R
ORT
RAME
ELAY
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E
, P
ACKET
NDPNTS
IQ. See also, the menu tree in Figure 8-2 on page 8-2.
Figure 8-1. Packet Manager Menu
C
ACKET
NCTS
C
, C
ACKET
NCTS
NCTS
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