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Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?



On Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:50:35 +0100 
 Tassilo Erlewein <erlewein@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

The GRF-400 used to support HIPPI tunelling over ATM.

Neil


> Hi there,
> 
> I heared about Cray bus-based ATM OC3 boards that allow 
> ATM MTU's up to 64 KB... 
> now I would like to ask you:
> 
> Did you ever hear of plans, did you ever see a manual page
> in NetStar/Ascend GigaRouter/GRF documentation which could be
> interpreted in the direction of a non-standard big ATM MTU size
> - say 64K Bytes - in order to make ATM-to-HIPPI transitions
> in a Cray environment a happier affair?
> (I know there is now a hint in the GRF manual saying only 
> ATM MTU's up to 9180 bytes are supported)
> 
> Thanks in advance and merry X-mas everyone
> 
> Tassilo Erlewein
> 
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