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Chapter 1, Introduction – Lanner FW-8893C User Manual

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Introduction

Chapter 1

Network Application Platforms

F6 13 GbE Ports (LAN3~LAN10 are provided by Intel i350 and LAN11~LAN14 (not for FW-8893C) are provided by Intel i347)

LINK/ACT (Yellow)

SPEED (Green/Amber)

On/Flashing: The port is

linking and active in data

transmission.

Amber: The connection

speed is 1000Mbps.

Off: The port is not linking.

Green: The connection

speed is 100Mbps

Off: The connection speed

is 10Mbps.

F7 10G SFP+ (provided by Intel 82599ES)
The Fibre Channel LEDs indicate the status of the Fibre Channel ports.
Two LEDs are used to indicate the state and speed of the operation of each Fibre Channel port. The left LED indicates the link

state and the right LED indicates link activity

LED state

Link state

OFF

Non-link

ON

Link

ON

ACTIVE

LED state

Link activity

OFF

Non-link

ON

Link

BLINKING

Active in data transmission

With Intel i347 and i350, it equips with Intel Virtualization for Connectivity (VT-c) as part of the Intel Virtualization Technology

suite to improve networking and I/O throughput on a virtualized system (you also need to turn on the CPU Virtualization

in the BIOS menu).

Moreover, 2 pair (LAN7-LAN8, LAN9-LAN10 on the Ethernet module can be configured as LAN Bypass

(Lanner Generation 3) when failure events occur (depending on the type of LAN modules). This feature can be implemented

with a watch dog timer to enable it automatically. Refer to your User’s Manual CD for a sample implementation of this

feature.