The SBC 5400 hardware platform comes equipped with four media ports and is available in three models based on the media port configuration. Customers must purchase the appropriate model based on their interface and capacity requirements. The media ports are enabled on the chassis depending upon the network interface license installed.
- The 2 x 10 Gbps flavor of the SBC 5400 does not support full-bandwidth DoS protection on both the packet ports.
- On a 2 x 10 Gbps flavor of the SBC 5400, the two 10 GE packet ports do not support an active-standby port redundancy model with each other. Both the ports are active when enabled on an Active SBC node, and both the ports are standby on a Standby SBC node.
- A single SBC-1 X 10 GMP packet port license is used to enable both 10 GE packet ports on an SBC 5400 in 10 Gbps mode.
- The 2 x 1 Gbps mode is a default mode that any SBC 5400 platform can use. A license is required to use both 4 x 1 Gbps and 2 x 10 Gbps modes.
- If there is no license, only ports 0 and 1 are operable.
Media port speed is user-configurable. The following licenses support the media port configurations:
- SBC-4 X 1 GMP – This license allows four 1 Gbps media ports.
- SBC-1 X 10GMP – This license allows two 10 Gbps media ports.
Refer to SBC 5400 Hardware Platform Specifications and Connecting SBC 5400 Ethernet and Data Cables for additional hardware details.
Refer to Node-Locked Licensing for licensing details.
Customers may upgrade or change the licensed network interfaces on their SBC 5400 systems after initial purchase as below, as needed.
A media port operating in 10 GbE mode supports 10 Gb/s speed, full-duplex only and auto-negotiations is unsupported in this mode. Media ports operating in 1 GbE mode supports operation at 1 Gb/s speed, full duplex mode only with auto-negotiation enabled.
10 GbE Mode
[root@CHIVAS linuxadmin]# ethtool pkt0 Settings for pkt0: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: Not reported Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Supports auto-negotiation: No Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 10000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Link detected: yes
[root@CHIVAS linuxadmin]# ethtool pkt1 Settings for pkt1: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: Not reported Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Supports auto-negotiation: No Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 10000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Link detected: yes
1 GbE Mode
[root@YF39 ~]# ethtool pkt0 Settings for pkt0: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Link detected: yes [root@YF39 ~]# ethtool pkt1 Settings for pkt1: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Link detected: yes [root@YF39 ~]# ethtool pkt2 Settings for pkt2: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Link detected: yes [root@YF39 ~]# ethtool pkt3 Settings for pkt3: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Link detected: yes [root@YF39 ~]#
Any changes to the media port speed, deletes the existing configuration. To use the option, Enable 10G Media Speed
, power off the host first.