11-12CHAPTER 11: ETHERNET LANS AND BRIDGES IN THE 7600 CARD

Local Bridged-LANFor the purpose of forming bridged-LAN environments, the 7600 Card Environment provides up to 16 internal bridges that can be configured by

management. On setup, one bridge is allocated to each bridged-LAN environment that is to operate in the 7600 Card. Each local LAN segment is then attached to a port of the bridge corresponding to the bridged-LAN environment in which it is to operate. bridges are configured by management in the Fast Setup (see Chapter 3) or in the Virtual LAN Configuration menu see (Chapter 5). For management purposes the bridges are numbered from 0 to 3 in each one of the four contexts. Figure 11-5 shows two local bridged-LAN environments, Engineering and Finance, connected to bridges on a 7600 Card.

Figure 11-5Bridged-LAN environments connected to a 7600 Card

Connection to the In Chapter 12, the possibility of connecting bridges in the 7600 to the ATM Network ATM network is discussed. For each bridge, an ATM connection can be

configured through which the bridge is attached to an Emulated LAN (see “Bridges in the 7600 Card” on page 12-10).

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