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1.2. Interfaces and Ports
This section is an overview of the E7 product's external design.
Figure 1.2. Clavister E7 Connection Ports
The E7 features the following connection ports on the front panel:
• On the left there is a set of RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces which are numbered 1 to 8. All 8
interfaces are connected together by a common switch fabric and share the single logical
cOS Core interface name GESW. This means that any security policy in the cOS Core rule sets
that refers to the interface GESW will apply to traffic on any of the 8 physical interfaces.
The GESW interfaces allow the configuration of Port Based VLANs through cOS Core so that
the 8 interfaces can be divided up into different VLANs. This feature is described further in
Appendix C, Port Based VLAN Setup .
• Next, are 3 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. These have the logical cOS Core names of G1,
G2 and G3. These names are marked on each interface. These interfaces function
independently of each other and are not connected by a switch fabric.
• There are two versions of the E7 appliance. The first generation version provides console
connection through an RS232 RJ45 connector port, the second generation uses a micro-USB
port. All images in this manual show only the micro-USB port version.
The console port is used for direct access to the cOS Core Boot Menu and the cOS Core
Command Line Interface (CLI).
All E7 Ethernet interfaces are capable of link speed auto-negotiation and can operate using
10Base-T, 100Base-Tx, or 1000Base-T.
Figure 1.3. The E7 Ethernet Interface Ports
All the E7 Ethernet interfaces support Automatic MDI-X and do not require a crossover cable for
direct connection from another computer.
Port Based VLAN
For the E7 only, cOS Core allows the administrator to configure of any of the GESW interfaces so
they act as a VLAN. All 8 Ethernet interfaces can act as 8 separate VLANs or they can be grouped
into a lesser number of VLANs. Alternatively, some may be part of a VLAN and some may
continue to act as normal GESW interfaces connected by a switch fabric. After such
configuration, the VLAN processing load for these interfaces is handled by the E7 hardware
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