3Com 6000 Series Installation Manual page 36

36 C 4: C
HAPTER ONFIGURING THE
Command line interface
Slot Arrangement and
Interface Numbering
Rules
R
OUTER
3Com 6000 Series Router command line interface provides a rich set of
configuration commands, which are grouped in system view. A group corresponds
a view. You can switch between different views through commands. Normally,
only some specific commands can be executed in a certain view, although some
common commands, (such as ping, display current-configuration, and interface)
can be used in every view.
3Com 6000 Router supports various interfaces, such as CON port, AUX port,
Ethernet port, (synchronous/asynchronous) Serial port, and Asynchronous port.
The interfaces are configured in the order of sequence number.
Figure 2 Example: 6080 Router slot arrangement
Slot 3 Slot 1
Slot 5 Slot 7
Interface numbering rule
6000 interfaces are numbered in three dimensions. The rules are as follows:
The interfaces are numbered in the interface-type X/Y/Z format, in which,
interface specifies the interface type (as serial, asynchronous, ethernet or ATM,
etc.), X specifies the slot number, Y specifies the board number (or is fixed as 0
when there is no board), and Z specifies the interface sequence number.
As shown in the above figure, different interfaces of an interface module share
the same slot number X.
For every interface, Y starts from 0 and Z indicates the interface sequence (from
left to right) on the interface module.
Slot 2
Slot 0
Slot 8
Slot 4
Slot 6