3Com 5000 quick start Finding More Information, Enabling Communication Between Virtual Bridges

8 COREBUILDER® 5000 SWITCHMODULE QUICK START AND REFERENCE

8.4Enabling Communication Between Virtual Bridges

You can enable communication between virtual bridges by connecting ports on different virtual bridges through a front panel, through other physical connections (such as a router), crossover cables, or, if an Ethernet Backplane SwitchModule is installed in the hub, between virtual bridges over the CoreBuilder 5000 shared Ethernet backplane. For more information, see the

CoreBuilder 5000 SwitchModule User Guide.

The following figure shows two virtual bridges that connect through a router:

	SwitchModules in
Router	slots 2, 3, and 4
LAN

NMS

Virtual bridge 1 and virtual bridge 2 can forward traffic to each other through the physical router connection between ports 2.2 and 3.2.

9.0Finding More Information

This section describes locations of further configuration information in the CoreBuilder 5000 SwitchModule User Guide, which is located on the 3Com DocsOnCD documentation CD-ROM that comes with this product.

You can also use a network management application, such as 3Com Transcend Network Control Services, to further configure SwitchModules. See the appropriate network management documentation.

Management Task	User Guide
	Reference
Configure virtual bridges	Chapter 2
Configure SwitchModule memory resources
Configure the address aging interval
Hot-swap a SwitchModule
Configure IP settings for SNMP management	Chapter 3
Enable and disable ports	Chapter 4
Configure media-specific port parameters,
including PACE®
Create filters according to packet destination	Chapter 5
address
Configure source checking
Create protocol filters and broadcast thresholds
Change default translation settings for
networks that run Raw 802.3 IPX protocol over
a Novell platform
Monitor network traffic using RMON and roving	Chapter 6
analysis port
Monitor network traffic using DMM commands
and supported statistics
Manage SwitchModules using SNMP requests
Manage the Spanning Tree configuration on	Chapter 7
your network
Enable Frame Tagging	Chapter 8
Enable IGMP Snooping	Chapter 9
Troubleshoot SwitchModules	Chapter 10
Specifications	Appendix A
Designate the Network	Appendix B
Technical Support	Appendix C