Cabletron Systems Lancast Media Converter 7000 User Manual
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Viewing Chassis Information
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The SmartSwitch 7000 Chassis View
The Board Menus
The Board menu for the 7X00 Control Module (always installed in slot 1) provides
mostly bridging-related selections, many of which are also available from the
Bridge Status window:
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Spanning Tree...
, which allows you to set bridge parameters when it is
operating using the Spanning Tree Algorithm (STA) Ð the method that bridges
use to decide the controlling (root) bridge when two or more bridges are in
parallel. See the bridging chapter of your Tools Guide for more information.
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Disable/Enable Bridge
, which enables or disables bridging across every
interface installed in the SmartSwitch 7000 chassis.
¥
Module Type...
, which brings up a window containing a description of the
selected board; see Viewing Hardware Types,
¥
Performance Graph...
, which visually displays the combined performance of
all bridging interfaces installed in the SmartSwitch 7000 hub; see the bridging
chapter of your Tools Guide.
Board menus for other NIMs displayed in the Chassis View window provide only
the Module Type selection.
The Port Menus
Each port menu offers the following selections:
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Performance Graph...
, which brings up windows that visually display
bridging performance at the selected interface; see the bridging chapter of
your Tools Guide for details.
¥
Source Addressing...,
which allows you to view the MAC addresses that are
communicating through a selected bridge interface; see the bridging chapter
of your Tools Guide for details.
¥
I/F Statistics...
, which graphically displays color-coded statistical information
for each bridge interface; see the bridging chapter of the Tools Guide for
details.
¥
ConÞguration...
, which launches the conÞguration window appropriate to the
selected port: for standard Ethernet and FDDI ports, the conÞguration
window allows you to set the Duplex Mode; for Fast Ethernet ports, it allows
you to conÞgure a number of different options, including auto-negotiation. See
ConÞguring Ports
; note that there is no ConÞguration currently
available for ATM ports.
¥
Alarm ConÞguration...
, which launches the RMON-based Basic and
Advanced Alarm applications; see Chapter 4, Alarm ConÞguration, for
details. Note that this selection is available for all bridge port interfaces Ñ even
those (like FDDI and ATM) that do not speciÞcally support RMON
functionality Ñ as long as at least one Ethernet or Fast Ethernet NIM is
installed in the chassis.