applicable to the LAN ports and will not be discussed any further in this book.

11.8.2.1 Configuring Physical Port Parameters

The Physical Port List panel displays information about the physical ports currently installed on your module. An example of this panel is shown in Figure 146.

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Port ID

Name

Connection

Card

Type

Protocol

1

PHYSICAL PORT

Ethernet-1

0

Backplane

csmaLan

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PHYSICAL PORT

Isolated

0

Backplane

csmaLan

3

PHYSICAL PORT

Isolated

0

Backplane

csmaLan

4

PHYSICAL PORT

Isolated

3

Backplane

csmaLan

5

PHYSICAL PORT

Isolated

3

Backplane

csmaLan

6

PHYSICAL PORT

Isolated

3

Backplane

csmaLan

 

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Figure 146. LMS Physical Port List for Ethernet Connections

Note that the above panel also shows the list of backplane Ethernet connections for ports 1 thru 6. As can be seen from this panel, port 1 was assigned to Ethernet_1 segment on the backplane using DMM commands.

Selecting the Next Page option on this panel allows you to display the port list for any I/O cards that may be installed on your Multiprotocol Interconnect module. In our example, we had two token-ring I/O cards, so the resulting display is shown in Figure 147 on page 258.

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