Lucent Technologies 9077 16S Installing an SP Switch Router Adapter card, Installation overview

Configuring the SP Switch Router Adapter

Installing an SP Switch Router Adapter card

Installing an SP Switch Router Adapter card

This section contains the procedure for physical installation and minimal configuration of the SP Switch Router Adapter card for use as an SP dependent node. This includes cabling the card to the SP control workstation and the appropriate SP switch port.

Note: There must be an Ethernet twisted-pair connection between the SP Switch Router control board and the SP control workstation. This is normally done through an Ethernet hub.

Installation overview

IBM support personnel who install the SP Switch Router (9077) will perform the physical installation and minimal configuration described below with help from the customer's system administrator. The system administrator must provide basic configuration information to complete the steps in this procedure.

1Locate all the components of the SP Switch Router ship group.

2Perform the complete physical installation of the SP Switch Router unit as described in the

“Power On and Initial Configuration” chapter of the GRF 400/1600 Getting Started manual.

Make sure that when the “First-time power on configuration script” runs at system boot, the required configuration information is provided by or entered by the customer. This information includes the SP Switch Router unit IP address and host name.

3Perform the procedure to configure the PCMCIA 520 MB disk. The procedure is included in this chapter.

4Route the Ethernet twisted-pair cable between the SP Switch Router unit and the Ethernet hub, then connect the cable to the SP Switch Router control board and to the Ethernet hub.

5Verify that the SP control workstation has a connection to this same Ethernet hub.

If the SP control workstation Ethernet adapter is configured by the system administrator, then a ping test from the SP control workstation to the configured SP Switch Router Ethernet address can be done to test Ethernet connectivity.

Physical installation and minimal configuration will be complete at this point.

Review the “Attaching SP Switch Router cables” section in this chapter before connecting the SP Switch Router Adapter card cables to the SP switch ports specified for this configuration.

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