Specifications

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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide, R3.2
March 2002
Chapter 9 Ethernet Operation
E Series Circuit Configurations
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Source) dialog box opens (Figure 9-12).
Figure 9-12 Choosing a circuit source
Step 12
Choose the circuit source from the Node menu. Either end node can be the circuit source.
Step 13 If you are building a Multicard EtherSwitch circuit, choose Ethergroup from the Slot menu and click
Next.
Step 14 If you are building a Single-card EtherSwitch circuit, from the Slot menu choose the Ethernet card where
you enabled the Single-card Etherswitch and click Next.
The Circuit Creation (Destination) dialog box opens.
Step 15 Choose the circuit destination from the Node menu, (in this example, Node 2). Choose the node that is
not the source.
Step 16 If you are building a Multicard EtherSwitch circuit choose Ethergroup from the Slot menu and click
Next.
Step 17 If you are building a Single-card EtherSwitch circuit, from the Slot menu choose the Ethernet card for
which you enabled the Single-card Etherswitch and click Next.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit VLAN Selection) dialog box opens.
Step 18 Create the VLAN:
a. Click the New VLAN tab.
b. Assign an easily-identifiable name to your VLAN.
c. Assign a VLAN ID.
Note The VLAN ID should be the next available number between 2 and 4093 that is not already
assigned to an existing VLAN. Each ONS 15454 network supports a maximum of 509
user-provisionable VLANs.
d. Click OK.
e. Highlight the VLAN name and click the >> tab to move the available VLAN(s) to the Circuit
VLANs column.
Step 19 Click Next.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Routing Preferences) dialog box opens.
Step 20 Confirm that the following information about the point-to-point circuit is correct: