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Re: Fore ATM API: Which Qos?

  • From: Sam Mokbel <smokbel@enfm.utcc.utoronto.ca>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:34:03 -0500

Vinay Bannai wrote:

> In article <879986379.23369@dejanews.com>,  <e-law@cs.yorku.ca> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >    I am a newbie of ATM. I am running some programs written with Fore ATM
> >API. The programs use AAL 5. Does anyone know which QoS (CBR, VBR, ABR, or
> >UBR) it is using?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
>
> I think you are confusing the issues here. The adaptation layer you use is
> independant of the QoS. You can get CBR, VBR, ABR or UBR with AAL5. This
> is somehting you have to negotiate with your network before you setup the
> VC. This is typically set by ioctl() calls in most of the Unix API's that
> I have seen.
>
> Vinay
>
> --
> Vinay Bannai                     E-mail: bannai@best.com