Ip2250 Management Ports; Configuring Network Devices - Nokia IPSO 4.0 Reference Manual

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IP2250 Management Ports

The Ethernet management ports on IP2250 systems are designed to be used for the following
purposes:
Managing the appliance
Firewall synchronization traffic
IP cluster protocol traffic
Connection to a log server
Caution
The management ports are not suitable for forwarding production data traffic. Do not
use them for this purpose.

Configuring Network Devices

Network Voyager displays network devices as physical interfaces. A physical interface exists for
each physical port on a network interface card (NIC) installed in the appliance. Physical
interface names have the form:
<type>-s<slot>p<port>
where:
<type>
<slot>
<port>
two-port Ethernet NIC in slot 2 is represented by two physical interfaces:
eth-s2p2
The following table lists the interface-name prefixes for each type.
Type
Ethernet
FDDI
ATM
Serial
T1/E1
HSSI
Token Ring
30
is a prefix indicating the device type.
is the number of the slot the device occupies in the appliance.
is the port number of the NIC. The first port on a NIC is port one. For example, a
.
Prefix
eth
fddi
atm
ser
ser
ser
tok
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and
eth-s2p1