Cajun P550 Switch Overview

Figure 1-1. Cajun Switch

Attach serial port cable here

Attach Ethernet cable here

Modules

The chassis modules include:

❒Layer 3 Supervisor Module or Layer 2 Supervisor Module

❒Layer 3 and Layer 2 Fast Ethernet Modules

❒Layer 3 and Layer 2 Gigabit-Speed Modules

Layer 2 Supervisor Module

The Supervisor Module features include:

❒PowerPC 860 Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor

❒Memory: 4 MB Flash, 16 MB DRAM, 128 KB NVRAM

❒Real-time clock

❒Out-of-band console: 10Base-T & RS-232

❒RMON support

❒Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management agent

❒Dot matrix display

The supervisor module is responsible for address learning, address cache management, and spanning tree management.

1-2

Cajun P550/P220 Switch Operation Guide