Installing the Adapter on Windows 2000/XP
8
2. Installing the Adapter on Windows 2000/XP
The
NDIS5 Miniport
driver for Windows 2000/XP is fully compatible with the Microsoft NDIS5
specification.
Installing the NDIS5 Miniport driver
Please note that you must logon as system
administrator
to be able to install the driver, since it is not
yet certified by Microsoft.
Install the PROATM card on the target computer and power on the system
Windows should detect a new hardware. Follow the Microsoft indications to install a driver from a known
location, i.e., the PROATM CDROM or a folder containing the
proatm.msi
driver.
Verifying the Installation
Connect the optical fiber to an ATM switch or to another NIC.
Make sure that the green and the red LED's are lit at the edge connector plate.
Right-click the
My network place
icon and select
Properties
Make sure you see at least the
ATM connection
icon.
NOTE
: The ATM
ELAN
module (LAN EMULATION) is not useful for IP over ATM (Classical IP)
connections.
RFC2684
Windows XP includes an implementation of Internet RFC2684 Bridge. The implementation is an NDIS
intermediate driver (
Ethernet ATM Miniport
) that looks like an Ethernet interface, but uses an ATM PVC to
carry Ethernet frames.
PPPoA and PPPoE(oA)
Windows XP provides a PPPoA application that can be set up into the
Call Manager.
The PPPoA is seen as a
modem that can be used when configuring a PPP remote access connection. There are some tricks when setting
up this sort of connection. For example the value used as connection phone number must be set into the ATM
connection properties into
ATM Call Manager→ATM PVC Configuration→Application Usage→Match only
to applications calling this address
Windows XP includes the ability to create client Internet connections using PPPoE. The PPPoE looks for all
Ethernet connections. If it finds an active
Ethernet ATM Miniport
virtual Ethernet adapter, it creates
automatically a client PPPoE connection over ATM.
Setting Up IP over ATM for a PVC-Only Environment
Please, follow these steps to configure Windows 2000/XP Professional or Windows 2000/2003 Server
computers such as they connect with Classical IP over ATM using PVC's:
Enabling IP over ATM:
In the
Network Connections
dialog box,
select the
Properties
tab and then double-click on the
ATM adapter
to
display all protocols bound to the ATM adapter.
