How to Use This Guide

How to Use This Guide

This preface provides an overview of this guide and the DFE‐Gold Series manual set, and a brief summary of each chapter; defines the conventions used in this document; and instructs how to obtain technical support from Enterasys Networks. To locate information about various subjects in this guide, refer to the following table:

For...

Refer to...

 

 

An overview of the DFE-Gold modules

Chapter 1, Introduction

 

 

Network requirements that must be met before

Chapter 2, Network Requirements

installing the DFE-Gold modules

 

 

 

Instructions to install the DFE-Gold module

Chapter 3, Installation

hardware

 

 

 

Troubleshooting installation problems and

Chapter 4, Troubleshooting

diagnosing network/operational problems using the

 

LANVIEW LEDs

 

 

 

Specifications, environmental requirements, and

Appendix A, Specifications

physical properties of the DFE-Gold modules

 

 

 

Instructions to set the mode switches when

Appendix B, Mode Switch Bank Settings

necessary and remove and replace DIMM and

and Optional Installations

DRAM SIMM memory

 

 

 

Related Documents

The manuals listed below can be obtained from the World Wide Web in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) at the following site:

http://www.enterasys.com/support/manuals

Enterasys Matrix DFE‐Gold Series Configuration Guide provides information on how to use the Command Line Interface to set up and manage the DFE‐Gold modules.

Cabling Guide provides information on dB loss and cable specifications.

Unlike the Enterasys Matrix DFE‐Gold Series Configuration Guide, the Cabling Guide is not listed alphabetically on the web site. Instead, it is listed under the Overview Guides link.

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