Port-Pipes - Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual

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Port-pipes

A port pipe is a Dell Force10 specific term for the hardware path that packets follow through a system. Port

pipes travel through a collection of circuits (ASICs) built into line cards and RPMs on which various

processing events for the packets occur. One or two port pipes process traffic for a given set of physical

interfaces or a port-set. The E300 only supports one port pipe per slot. On the E1200 and E600 each slot

has two port pipes with following specifications:

48 port line rate cards have two port pipes on the line card

48 port high density cards have only one port pipe on the line card

Note: All references to the E1200 in this section include the E1200i-AC and E1200i-DC. References to

E600 include the E600i.

For the purposes of diagnostics, the major difference between the E-Series platforms is the number of port

pipes per slot.

E1200 and E600—Each slot has two port-pipes. Each portpipe has nine 3.125Gbps channels to the

backplane, one to each SFM.

E300—Each slot has one portpipe. Each port-pipe has eight 3.125Gbps channels to the backplane,

with four channels to each SFM.

presents these platform differences again.

Table 23-7. Platform Differences Concerning Port-pipes

Chassis Type

E1200/E1200i-AC/DC

Capacity of Each

Raw Slot Capacity

Channel (Gbps)

Interfaces | 509