SAP(7) Miscellaneous SAP(7)NAMEsap - Service Access Point specification
DESCRIPTION
The text2sap and sap2text functions use the format described in this
man page. Because all standard ATM tools on Linux use those functions
to convert to or from the textual representation of SAP specifications,
they expect them in the same format too.
The SAP is divided into two parts: the broadband high layer information
(BHLI) and the broadband low layer information (BLLI). A SAP can con‐
tain one, both, or none of them. In the latter case, the SAP is usually
considered as a wildcard SAP, i.e. a SAP that is compatible with any
other SAP.
Each part begins with its name (bhli or blli), followed by a colon and
a (non-empty) list of attributes, which are of the form
attribute=value. Some attributes have sub-attributes, which follow
them. Everything that isn't separated by a colon or an equal sign is
separated by a comma.
Values which are a number of bytes are specified as the corresponding
sequence of pairs of hex digits. The sequence can be optionally pre‐
fixed with 0x. Values with are integers in a given range can be speci‐
fied in decimal (no prefix), octal (0 prefix), and hexadecimal (0x pre‐
fix).
The following, mutually exclusive attributes are allowed in the bhli
part (see the corresponding ATM Forum and ITU documents for the seman‐
tics):
iso=1-8 bytes
ISO
user=1-8 bytes
User-specific
hlp=4 bytes
High layer profile. Note that this attribute only exists on UNI
3.0. text2sap only recognizes it if your system is configured to
accept UNI 3.0 message formats.
oui=3 bytes,id=4 bytes
Vendor-specific application identifier
The structure of the bhli part is more complex. It distinguishes three
layers, l1, l2, and l3, of which the first one is presently unsup‐
ported. For layer two, the following (mutually exclusive) possibilities
exist:
l2=iso1745
Basic mode ISO 1745
l2=q291
ITU-T Q.291 (Rec. I.441)
l2=lapb
Extended LAPB, half-duplex (Rec. T.71)
l2=iso8802
LAN LLC (ISO/IEC 8802/2)
l2=x75 ITU-T X.75, SLP
l2=x25_ll ...
ITU-T X.25, link layer. This attribute and the following
attributes through l2=iso7776 can optionally be followed by one
or more of the following sub-attributes: mode=mode (mode of
operation, either norm or ext), and window=window size (window
size in k, 1-127).
l2=x25_ml ...
ITU-T X.25, multilink
l2=hdlc_arm ...
HDLC ARM (ISO/IEC 4335)
l2=hdlc_nrm ...
HDLC NRM (ISO/IEC 4335)
l2=hdlc_abm ...
HDLC ABM (ISO/IEC 4335)
l2=q992 ...
ITU-T Q.922
l2=iso7776 ...
ISO 7776 DTE-DTE
l2=user,info=information
User-specified. information is an integer in the range 0 to 255.
For layer three, the following (again, mutually exclusive) possibili‐
ties exist:
l3=iso8473
ITU-T X.233 | ISO/IEC 8473
l3=t70 ITU-T T.70 minimum network layer
l3=h321
ITU-T Recommendation H.321
l3=x25 ...
ITU-T X.25, packet layer. This attribute and the following
attributes through l3=x223 can optionally be followed by one or
more of the following sub-attributes: mode=mode (see above),
size=default packet size (4-12, corresponding to 16-4096), win‐
dow=window size (see above).
l3=iso8208 ...
ISO/IEC 8208
l3=x223 ...
ITU-T X.223 | ISO/IEC 8878
l3=tr9577,ipi=identifier ...
ISO/IEC TR 9577. identifier is the initial protocol identifier
in the range 0-255. For SNAP (0x80), the keyword snap can be
used, and the following sub-attributes have to be specified:
oui=3 bytes, and pid=2 bytes.
l2=user,info=information
User-specified, see above.
l3=h310 ...
ITU-T Recommendation H.310. The sub-attribute term=type (termi‐
nal type, rx, tx, or rxtx) is recognized. If present, it enables
the two additional sub-attributes fw_mpx=capability (forward
multiplexing capability, ts, ts_fec, ps, ps_fec, or h221) and
bw_mpx=capability. Both are optional.
Note that commas must never follow colons or other commas. Also, white‐
space is not allowed inside a SAP specification. SAP specifications are
case-insensitive. On input, items must be written in exactly the order
used in this document.
EXAMPLES
blli:l2=iso8802
Classical IP over ATM (RFC1577)
bhli:oui=0x0060D7,id=0x01000001,blli:l2=iso8802
Arequipa (RFC2170)
blli:l3=tr9577,ipi=snap,oui=0x00A03E,pid=0x0002
LAN Emulation
AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger, EPFL LRC <werner.almesberger@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
Linux November 6, 1997 SAP(7)
