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BlackDiamond Switch Hardware Installation Guide
B
LACK
D
IAMOND
6800 S
WITCH
O
VERVIEW
The MSM64i must be installed in one of the two center slots of the BlackDiamond 6800
chassis, labeled Slot A and Slot B.
Figure 1-2
shows the MSM64i.
Figure 1-2: Management Switch Fabric Module 64 (MSM64i)
The MSM64i has the following ports:
•
Console port (used to connect a terminal and perform local out-of-band
management)
•
10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet management port
•
Modem port (used to connect a modem for remote access to the CLI)
•
PCMCIA slot (not used for normal operation)
MSM64i B
EHAVIOR
The BlackDiamond 6800 switch can run with a single MSM64i installed. When a second
MSM64i is used, one of the MSM64i modules is selected to be the master MSM64i, and
the other becomes the slave MSM64i.
The master MSM64i is responsible for upper-layer protocol processing and system-
management functions. For example, OSPF computation and SNMP functions are
50015
EW_MSM64i
Module status LEDs
Module reset
Console port
Modem port
Management port
PCMCIA slot
MGMT
PCMCIA
LINK /
ACTIVITY
MODEM
CONSOLE
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