Lucent Technologies 9076, 9077 16S, 9077 04S Introduction to the SP Switch Router Adapter card

Introduction to the SP Switch Router	1
Adapter card

The RS/6000 SP Switch Router is based on the GRF 400 (4-card) and GRF 1600 (16-card) routers manufactured by Lucent Technologies. For that reason, this manual contains references to the GRF 400/1600 Getting Started, GRF Reference Guide, and

GRF Configuration and Management manuals. The SP model of the router is referred to as the SP Switch Router.

SP Switch Routers can be used to provide high-speed data communication links between IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP) and external networks/hosts. The SP Switch Router Adapter card is the router media card that specifically supports SP system data transfers. To connect to an SP system, the SP Switch Router Adapter card is cabled directly to an SP Switch port.

Material in Chapter 1 provides a basic description of the SP Switch Router Adapter card. Please refer to the GRF 400/1600 Getting Started manual for SP Switch Router system installation procedures.

Chapter 1 covers these topics:

What is the RS/6000 SP Switch Router ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

SP Switch Router systems for IBM sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Upgrading system memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Overview of the SP Switch Router Adapter card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Inserting a media card into the SP Switch Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

SP Switch Router Adapter card LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

SP Switch Router Adapter card specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

Assigning filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1- 14

SNMP on the SP Switch Router Adapter card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

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