Eiu Mac Addresses - Nortel DMS-100 User Manual

72 Chapter 3: EIU datafill
Table 11 Field descriptions for table LIUINV for EIU datafill (continued)
Field Subfield or
refinement
CARDINFO
APPLPEC
PBPEC
HEARTBEAT
MAC_
ADDRESS
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EIU MAC addresses

By industry convention, MAC addresses for networking devices are unique
worldwide. In typical networking devices, the MAC address is burned into a
PROM on the circuit pack. However, for EIUs on the DMS-100 switch, the
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Entry Explanation and action
see subfields Card information
This field specifies the card data and
consists of subfield APPLPEC.
NT9X84AA Application product engineering code
Enter the PEC of the application card.
Card NT9X84AA is used with EIU
applications.
This field consists of subfields PBPED,
HEARTBEAT, and MAC_ADDRESS.
NT9X85AA Paddle board product engineering code
or Enter one of the PECs.
NT9X85BA
Enter NT9X85AA for EIU coax
applications.
Enter NT9X85BA for EIU unshielded
twisted pair applications.
YES or NO Heartbeat
Enter YES if the EIU expects a
heartbeat indication signal from the
media access unit (MAU) connected to
it; otherwise, enter NO.
Yes is allowed only if the MAU supports
heartbeat of signal quality error (SQE)
000075F00000 to Media access control address
000075FFFFFF Enter a 12-character hex string
representing the MAC address.
The MAC address is represented in
hexadecimal without any spaces
between digits. The MAC_ADDRESS
must be of the form 000075Fxxxxx.
MAC addresses for EIUs are defined by
Nortel. Refer to "Appendix I: Obtaining a
MAC address" for more information on
MAC addresses.