PA-7000 Series Firewall Module and Interface Card Information
PA-7000 Series Firewall Network Processing Cards
(NPCs)
Network Processing Cards (NPCs) provide network connectivity for a PA-7000 Series firewall. To
scale performance and capacity, you can install up to six NPCs in a PA-7050 firewall and up to ten
NPCs in a PA-7080 firewall. If you plan on fully populating a PA-7000 Series firewall with NPCs,
Determine PA-7000 Series Firewall Power Configuration Requirements
to ensure that you
provide enough power to the firewall.
When viewing the NPCs from the web interface, the NPCs are organized by slot and you click
the icon to the left of the slot number to show the NPC ports. The port numbering designation is
Ethernet, followed by slot/port such as ethernet<slot>/<port>, where slot is the physical slot the
card is installed in and the port is the interface port number. For example, the first Ethernet port
on an NPC installed in slot 1 shows ethernet1/1 and port 2 shows ethernet1/2. The first port on
an NPC installed in slot 2 shows ethernet2/1 and port 2 shows ethernet2/2. For information on
Replace a PA-7000 Series Network Processing Card (NPC)
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On the PA-7050 firewall, you install NPCs in slots 1,2,3,5,6, and 7 and on the PA-7080 firewall,
you install NPCs in slots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
You must install at least one NPC to enable the firewall to process network traffic.
The following NPCs can be installed in a PA-7000 Series firewall:
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Identify PA-7000 Series NPC Port Activity and Link LEDs
PA-7000 20G NPC
The PA-7000 20G
provides 10Mbps to 10Gbps Ethernet connectivity. Use the following
topics to learn about the NPC components, how to interpret the LEDs, and how to install an NPC.
The PA-7000 20G NPC is not compatible with the
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PA-7000 20G NPC Component Descriptions
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Interpreting the PA-7000 20G NPC LEDs
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Install a PA-7000 Series Firewall Network Processing Card (NPC)
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