Circuit transport protocol project

Part of a broader project examining file transfers over circuits

For more information about this project, email moors AT ieee.org.

 

1       Participants

Tim Moors

Malathi Veeraraghavan

Tao Li

Jeff Tao

 

Preliminary specification of (and reasoning behind) Zing: In Word and PDF formats.

 

2       Information about Lucent’s Optistar NIC

Lucent Optical Area Networking (OAN) web page

Optistar OC12c NIC documentation

Linux software (including driver source code)

 

3       Related documents

(References to obsoleted RFCs are intended to help determine which RFC to read if you have an old reference.)

 

J. Carlson, P. Langner, E. Hernandez-Valencia and J. Manchester: “PPP over Simple Data Link (SDL) using SONET/SDH with ATM-like framing”, IETF, RFC 2823, May 2000

(Continues from RFC2615 - not a formal “Update”)

 

A. Malis and W. Simpson: “PPP over SONET/SDH”, IETF, RFC 2615, Jun. 1999

(Obsoletes RFC1619)

 

W. Simpson: “The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)”, IETF, RFC 1661, Jul. 1994

(Obsoletes RFC1548) (Updated by RFC2153)

 

W. Simpson: “PPP Vendor Extensions”, IETF, RFC 2153, May 1997

 

W. Simpson: “PPP in HDLC-like Framing”, IETF, RFC 1662, Jul. 1994

(Obsoletes RFC1549)

 

M. Takefman, R. Broberg and P. Lothberg: “Enabling Byte Stuffing Transparency for RFC-1619”, IETF, Internet Draft, Jul. 1998

 

 

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