Cabletron Systems 9032578-05 manual Port Names, Port Numbers for Line Cards

Chapter 1: Introduction

Port Names

The term port refers to a physical connector on a line card installed in the SSR. The figure below shows eight 10 Base-T/100 Base-TX ports on a line card.

SSR-HTX12-08							10/100BASE-TX
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Offline
							Hot
Online							Swap

10 BASE-T/100 BASE-TX ports 10 BASE-T/100 BASE-TX ports

Each port in the SSR is referred to in the following manner:

<type>.<slot-number>.<port-number>

where:

<type> is the type of line card and can be one of the following:

at ATM line card

et 10 Base-X/100 Base-XEthernet line card

gi 1000 Base-XGigabit Ethernet line card

hs Dual HSSI WAN line card

se Serial WAN line card

so Packet-over-SONET line card

at ATM line card

<slot-number>is determined by the SSR model and the physical slot in which the line card is installed. On the SSR 2000, the slot number is printed on the side of each slot. On the SSR 8000 and SSR 8600, a legend printed on the fan tray shows the slot number of each slot.

<port-number>is the number assigned to the connector on the line card. The range and assignment of port numbers varies by the type of line card. The assignment of port numbers by line card is shown in the table below:

Table 3. Port Numbers for Line Cards

Line Card			Port Number Arrangement
				(Left to Right)
10/100 Base TX	1	2	3 4	5 6 7 8
100 Base FX	3	4	7	8
	1	2	5	6
1000 Base SX/LX	1	2

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