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7600 Fast Ethernet Card
User Guide
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Part No. DUA7600-0AAA01
Published November 1997
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abtthgde.book Page ii Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 3Com Corporation Q 5400 Bayfront Plaza Q Santa Clara, California Q 95052-8145 © 3Com Corporation, 1996. All rights reserved. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation, or adaptation) without permission from 3Com Corporation. 3Com Corporation reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time to
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abtthgde.book Page i Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM CONTENTS ABOUT THIS GUIDE Who Should Use This Guide 1 How to Use This Guide 1 Conventions 2 Informational and Warning Conventions 2 Typographical Conventions 2 Related Manuals 2 Documentation Road Map 3 1 OVERVIEW OF THE 7600 CARD About the 7600 Card 1-1 A Look at the 7600 Card 1-1 Port Configurations 1-1 Connectors 1-3 LEDs 1-3 7600 Card Capabilities 1-3 7600 Card Benefits 1-4 Ethernet-switching Features 1-4 Virtual LANs 1-4 Traffic Manage
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abtthgde.book Page ii Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Installing the 7600 Card Module 2-4 Removing the 7600 Card Module 2-4 Installing a Fast Ethernet Physical Module 2-5 Connecting to Network Devices 2-5 Connecting to a Local Management Terminal 2-6 7600 Card System States 2-7 System States and LEDs 2-7 Power-Up 2-8 Power-on Self-Test 2-8 Normal operation 2-8 Fast Ethernet Status Indicators 2-8 3 FAST SETUP Rapid Configuration 3-1 CELLplex 7000 Integrated Fast Setup 3-2 Setup Modes 3-2 Setup
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abtthgde.book Page iii Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 5 CONFIGURING VIRTUAL LANS Display Current Bridge Configuration 5-1 Attach Fast Ethernet Port to Bridge 5-2 Attach Internal ATM Port to Bridge 5-3 6 FAST ETHERNET AND BRIDGE MANAGEMENT TASKS Fast Ethernet Port Attributes and Statistics 6-2 Disable a Fast Ethernet Port 6-5 Display Broadcast Throttling Attributes 6-5 Update Broadcast Threshold 6-6 Enable/Disable Broadcast Throttling 6-6 Update Fast Ethernet Port 6-7 Bridge Attributes and St
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abtthgde.book Page iv Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 7 MANAGING ATM RESOURCES Display ATM Port Attributes and Statistics 7-2 Display Bridge ATM address 7-3 Update Bridge ATM Address 7-4 Display TM Configuration 7-5 Enable TM 7-6 Display TM Clients 7-6 Add TM Client 7-8 Remove TM Client 7-8 Update UNI Version 7-9 Enable/Disable ATM Port Admin Status 7-9 8 MANAGING LAN EMULATION CLIENTS Display LEC Statistics 8-2 Display Current LEC Configuration 8-4 Update LECS Address 8-6 Update ELAN Name 8-
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abtthgde.book Page v Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 9 SETTING NETWORK PARAMETERS Display Current IP Configuration 9-2 Update IP Address 9-2 Update Default Gateway 9-3 Update Subnet Mask 9-4 Display SNMP Configuration 9-4 Update NMS IP Address 9-5 10 MANAGING SYSTEM FUNCTIONS Display Software Version 10-2 Display Software Download Status 10-3 Download Software from Network 10-3 Erase Software from Flash 10-4 Download Software from Local 10-4 Display Hardware Configuration 10-5 Set System Conf
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abtthgde.book Page vi Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Monitoring Ports 11-5 Transparent Bridges 11-6 Store-and-Forward 11-6 Forwarding Database 11-7 Learning Station Addresses 11-7 Static Addresses 11-8 Spanning Tree Protocol 11-8 Re-configuring the Spanning Tree 11-10 Disabling the STP 11-10 Management Bridge Parameters 11-11 Bridged-LAN Environments in the 7600 Card 11-11 Local Bridged-LAN Environment 11-12 Connection to the ATM Network 11-12 12 ATM, LAN EMULATION, AND VIRTUAL LANS ATM Over
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abtthgde.book Page vii Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Bridges in the 7600 Card 12-10 Bridge Forwarding Database 12-12 Address Resolution 12-12 Learning Addresses 12-13 LES Address Registration in the 7600 Card 12-13 Aging in the LE_ARP Cache 12-14 Bridge Frame Forwarding Logic 12-14 Data Transmission over an ELAN 12-15 Unicast Frames 12-15 Unknown Unicast Frames 12-15 Multicast Frames 12-16 Control Information on Data VCs 12-16 LEC Statistics 12-16 LEC Parameters 12-16 Virtual LANs Overview
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abtthgde.book Page viii Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 14 DEVICE MANAGEMENT User Interfaces and Protocols 14-1 In-Band & Out-of-Band Management 14-2 7600 Card Management 14-3 Local Management (LM) 14-3 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 14-4 Virtual Terminal Protocols 14-7 15 SYSTEM MODES, ATTRIBUTES, AND TUNING Forwarding Modes 15-1 Timeout Tuning 15-2 Console Passwords 15-3 A TECHNICAL SUPPORT On-Line Technical Services A-1 3Com Bulletin Board Service A-1 Ask3Com on CompuServe A-2 3
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abtthgde.book Page ix Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Environmental C-2 Indicators C-2 Management C-2 Standards Compliance C-3 Safety C-3 Electromagnetic Emissions (Agency Certifications) C-3 Communications Protocols C-3 Management Protocols C-3 GLOSSARY ix
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abtthgde.book Page 1 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Who Should Use This Guide 1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE The 7600 Fast Ethernet Card User Guide provides the information required to understand how the 7600 Card works in ATM and Ethernet environments. If the information in the Release Notes shipped with your product differs from the information in this guide, follow the Release Notes. Who Should Use This guide is intended for the System or Network Administrator This Guide responsible for configur
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abtthgde.book Page 2 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM BOUT HIS UIDE 2 A T G If you are looking for information about: (continued) Turn to: An overview of system Modes, Attributes and Tuning Chapter 15 Technical support available for the 7600 Card Appendix A Troubleshooting the 7600 Card Appendix B Specifications of the 7600 Card Appendix C Conventions Tables 1 and 2 list conventions used throughout this guide. Table 1 lists informational and warning conventions. Informational and Warning Conve
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abtthgde.book Page 3 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Related Manuals 3 Table 3 7600 Card Documentation and Related Manuals (continued) Manual Name 3COM Part No. Transcend Enterprise Manager, ATM and VLAN DUA2785-0NAA03 Management The Documentation Road Map in Table 4 helps you locate specific Documentation Road Map information in the 7600 Card documentation set. . Table 4 7600 Card Documentation Road Map If you want to... Read... Learn about new features or bug fixes in the Release Note
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abtthgde.book Page 1 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM OVERVIEW OF THE 7600 CARD 1 This chapter provides an overview of the 7600 Fast Ethernet Interface Card and its major features and components. About the 7600 The 7600 Card provides up to 16 Fast Ethernet fiber optic or copper ports Card and is based on multiple ASIC ZipChip technology. Featuring a full or half duplex capability, the 7600 includes fully modular physical interfaces which can be upgraded in the field with a mixture of 100BA
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abtthgde.book Page 2 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM HAPTER VERVIEW OF THE ARD 1-2 C 1: O 7600 C Figure 1-1 Front Panel of the 7600 Card with full configuration Figure 1-2 Base card with plates covering ports 9-16 (optional modules)
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abtthgde.book Page 3 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM 7600 Card Capabilities 1-3 Connectors Fast Ethernet 100BASE-Fx interface connections are made through SC connectors; Fast Ethernet 100BASE-Tx interface connections are made through RJ-45 connectors. These are shown in Figure 1-3 and Figure 1-4 respectively. Figure 1-3 Physical module with SC connector for fiber ports Figure 1-4 Physical module with RJ-45 connector for copper ports LEDs LEDs at the left side of the front panel indic
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abtthgde.book Page 4 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM HAPTER VERVIEW OF THE ARD 1-4 C 1: O 7600 C switch and is similar in functionality to the 7200 Ethernet/ATM Interface Card. 7600 Card Benefits Fast Ethernet switching works with Virtual LANs and management to ensure that information flow does not cross Virtual LAN boundaries. The 7600 Card provides the following benefits: Q Boosts performance for individual workstations where bandwidth demands are high. Q Establishes Virtual LANs acr
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abtthgde.book Page 5 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM Typical Applications of the 7600 Card 1-5 Virtual LAN can incorporate both legacy LANs and ATM devices. Virtual LANs allow the establishment of logical workgroups, independent of physical connections, to achieve more flexible management. Using this feature, you can dynamically set up and manage workgroups composed of members from various departments or business units around the enterprise, regardless of their physical location. Traffi
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abtthgde.book Page 6 Tuesday, June 23, 1998 10:29 AM HAPTER VERVIEW OF THE ARD 1-6 C 1: O 7600 C Figure 1-5 Fast Ethernet backbone
