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                        OPENSS7 for STREAMS README
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    Welcome to the OpenSS7 package for LiS STREAMS.
    
    This is a pre-alpha release and is partially operational.  It provides a
    fully operational Signalling Data Link UDP Emulation (sdludp) which
    emulates an SS7 Signalling Data Link with Linux UDP sockets within the
    driver.  The first actual hardware driver (ACB56) has not been made
    operational for this release, but the source is included for
    illustration.

    The purpose of this release has been to place a partially working
    snapshot of the development code base into the hands of a few people
    that are interested in contributing to or building towards the
    development path of the OpenSS7 Project.

    This release also provides fully operational pushable STREAMS modules
    for the following components:

        sdl -   Signalling Data Link
        sdt -   Signalling Data Terminal
        sl  -   Signalling Link

    There is non-operational (under development) code for the following
    STREAMS muxes:

        sls -   Signalling Link Set
        mtp -   Message Transfer Part

    For more information on the STREAMS design approach for OpenSS7, see the
    website at http://www.openss7.org/.

    You will find INSTALATION INSTRUCTIONS in the top-level directory (along
    with this file) in the file named "INSTALL".  You will find the
    licensing terms (GPL) in the file named "LICENSE".  The Linux Software
    Map entry is in the file LSM.

    For an example of how to (or perhaps how no to) write user-level
    applications, see the test programs in the strss7-0.7.2/test/
    directory.
