Cisco Systems NPE-225, NPE-175 Enabling the Second Processor on the NPE-G1, PA-A3-OC3 SMI/SML/MM

Chapter 7 NPE-G1 and NPE-G2 Installation and Configuration Information

Enabling the Second Processor on the NPE-G1

Note When powering on the router, wait a minimum of 30 seconds before powering it off again.

Step 3 Listen for the fans; you should immediately hear them operating.

Step 4 During the boot process, observe the system LEDs. The LEDs on most of the port adapters go on and off in an irregular sequence. Some may go on, go off, and go on again for a short time. On the NPE-G1 or NPE-G2 and the I/O controller, the POWER OK LED goes on immediately.

Step 5 Observe the initialization process. When the system boot is complete (a few seconds), the NPE-G1 or NPE-G2 begins to initialize the port adapters and the I/O controller. During this initialization, the LEDs on each port adapter behave differently (most flash on and off). The enabled LED on each port adapter and Cisco uBR7200 series cable interface line card goes on when initialization is completed, and the console screen displays a script and system banner similar to the following:

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-J-M), 11.3(2)T

Copyright (c) 1986-1998 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Sun 22-Feb-98 06:00 by Biff

This completes the procedures for connecting input power and powering up the router. This also completes the procedure for installing the NPE-G1 or NPE-G2 in a Cisco 7200 VXR router, Cisco uBR7246VXR router, or Cisco uBR7225VXR.

Enabling the Second Processor on the NPE-G1

The Cisco 7200VXR NPE-G1 includes a dual-CPU-core BCM1250 processor. All Cisco IOS images for the Cisco 7200VXR NPE-G1 use CPU-core 0. CPU-core 1 allows acceleration of specific feature sets via separately purchased special software. As of Cisco IOS Release 12.3(14)YM, multi-processor forwarding (MPF) accelerates the following broadband features: L2TP Access Concentrator (LAC), L2TP Network Server (LNS), and PPP Terminated Aggregation (PTA). Port adapters are not supported in the multi-processor forwarding (MPF) path on processor 1.

Only the following port adapters are supported in the punt path (Processor 0 processing Cisco IOS) on Cisco IOS Release 12.3(14)YM and later releases of Cisco IOS Release 12.3YM:

•PA-A3-OC3 (SMI/SML/MM)

•PA-A3-T3

•PA-A3-E3

•PA-A6-OC3 (SMI/SML/MM)

•PA-A6-T3

•PA-A6-E3

•PA-FE-TX

•PA-2FE-TX

•PA-2FE-FX

You may have purchased the enabling software when you purchased a new chassis or you may have purchased the software as an upgrade.

If you are purchasing the software as an upgrade, you must:

Network Processing Engine and Network Services Engine Installation and Configuration

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