MARS - free, part src/part obj release.

[Grenville Armitage <[e-mail]>]

Free MARS (no, its not an interplanetary resistance movement)

To assist in the development of IP/ATM interfaces that can
support IP multicast over ATM, Bellcore is releasing code
for the server side of the MARS protocol - the MARS itself.

It can be obtained by anonymous FTP from:

ftp.bellcore.com

in

/pub/gja/mars/pubmars09qf.tar.Z

Once compiled in an appropriate environment, this code will
behave as a 'mostly compliant to ipmc-09' MARS. (As a bonus,
it will simultaneously behave as a 'mostly compliant' ATMARP
Server as well.)

So what are the catches?

	- This is a research prototype. Its free. It's elegance
	  and robustness may reflect this :)

	- The core of the MARS is only being released in object code
	  form. In addition, I've only provided SunOS4.1.4 based
	  object code for this first release. I plan on doing
	  a Solaris version "sometime soon", and for other
	  platforms as resources and demand allow.

	- Source code is provided for the sections of the MARS
	  that do signalling and ATM NIC specific actions. The
	  supplied code assumes Bellcore's Q.Port and
	  FORE's ForeThought 3.0.1 API. Documentation is
	  provided to enable the development of interfaces to
	  alternative signalling stacks or ATM APIs.

This effort was funded in part by the Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

Enjoy.

gja
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