30 SteelFusion Edge Hardware and Maintenance Guide
Installing Network Interface Cards in SteelFusion Edge Appliances Required tools and equipment
Required tools and equipment
You need the following tools and equipment to install a card:
Antistatic strap (required)
A Phillips screwdriver
Straight-through cables to connect the LAN ports to the LAN switches
Crossover cables to connect the WAN ports to the WAN routers
Ethernet network compatibility
The SteelFusion Edge appliances support the following Ethernet networking standards:
Ethernet Logical Link Control (LLC) (IEEE 802.2 - 1998)
Fast Ethernet 100 Base-TX (IEEE 802.3 - 2008)
Gigabit Ethernet over Copper 1000 Base-T and Fiber 1000 Base-SX (LC connector) and Fiber 1000
Base LX (IEEE 802.3 - 2008)
10-Gigabit Ethernet over Fiber, 10 GBase-LR Single Mode, and 10 GBase-SR Multimode (IEEE
802.3 - 2008)
The ports support the following connection types and speeds:
Primary - 10/100/1000 Base-T, auto-negotiating
Auxiliary - 10/100/1000 Base-T, auto-negotiating
LAN - 10/100/1000 Base-TX or 1000 Base-SX or 1000 Base-LX or 10GBase-LR or 10GBase-SR,
depending on configuration
WAN - 10/100/1000 Base-TX or 1000 Base-SX or 1000 Base-LX or 10GBase-LR or 10GBase-SR,
depending on configuration
Management - 10/100/1000 Base-T, auto-negotiating
The appliance supports VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.3 - 2008). It does not support the ISL protocol.
All copper interfaces are autosensing for speed and duplex (IEEE 802.3 - 2008).
The appliance auto-negotiates speed and duplex mode for all data rates and supports full-duplex mode
and flow control (IEEE 802.3 - 2008).
A SteelFusion Edge appliance with a Gigabit Ethernet card supports jumbo frames on in-path and
primary ports.
Supported NICs for SteelFusion Edge appliances
The SteelFusion Edge appliances support two independent nodes with their own management and
monitoring. The RiOS node and hypervisor node each operate independently of each other and support
their own NICs. NICs are supported for their intended use. Nonbypass cards are treated as data NICs,
and bypass cards are treated as in-path NICs. You cannot change a data NIC to an in-path NIC, or vice
versa, from the GUI or the CLI.
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