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CiscoASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router Hardware Installation Guide
Chapter1 Preparing for Installation
RSP and RP Port Connection Guidelines
Management LAN Ports Connection Guidelines
Each RSP/RP card has two RJ-45 media-dependent interface (MDI) Ethernet management LAN ports:
MGT LAN 0 and MGT LAN 1. These ports are used for IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX (100 Mbps), or
1000BASE-T (1000 Mbps) Ethernet connections. For the management port locations, see Route
Processor Overview, page4-19.
The transmission speed of the management LAN ports is not user-configurable. The transmission speed
is set through an autosensing scheme on the RSP/RP; the speed is determined by the network that the
Ethernet port is connected to. The combined total input rate of both MGT LAN 0 and MGT LAN 1 is
about 12 Mbps.
Management port characteristics are:
•Maximum transmission unit (MTU) is fixed at 1514 and cannot be configured.
•Flow control is disabled and cannot be configured.
•Input unicast packets with an unknown destination address are filtered and dropped.
•Autonegotiation of port speed (100/1000) and duplex (full/half) is supported. Autonegotiation
cannot be disabled.
Table 1 -7 lists the signals used on the Management LAN ports.

Management LAN Port LED Indicators

The Management LAN connectors have integral LED indicators (Figure1-62). When lit, these LEDs
indicate:
•Green (LINK)—Connection is alive.
•Amber (ACT)—Connection is active.
Table1-7 RSP/RP Management LAN Port Signals
MGT LAN Port Pin 100Base-TX Signal 1000Base-T Signal
1 Transmit+ BI_DA+
2 Transmit– BI_DA–
3 Receive+ BI_DB+
4 Unused BI_DC+
5 Unused BI_DC–
6 Receive– BI_DB–
7 Unused BI_DD+
8 Unused BI_DD–