Operator`s manual
Table Of Contents
- RS 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide
- Notices
- Table of Contents
- 1 About This Guide
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Hardware Installation
- 3.1 Safety Considerations
- 3.2 Hardware Specifications
- 3.3 Installing the Hardware
- 3.3.1 Verifying Your Shipment
- 3.3.2 Installing the Chassis
- 3.3.3 Installing an AC Power Supply
- 3.3.4 Installing a DC Power Supply
- 3.3.5 Installing the Control Module
- 3.3.6 Installing the Switching Fabric Module (RS8600 only)
- 3.3.7 Installing Line Cards
- 3.3.8 Installing GBIC Modules into Line Cards
- 3.3.9 Installing ATM Physical Media Cards (PHYs)
- 3.3.10 Multi-rate WAN Line Card and WICs
- 3.3.11 SRP Line Cards and Bridge Mate Module
- 3.3.12 Installing SFP Transceivers
- 3.3.13 Attaching the Network Cables to Line Cards
- 4 Initial Configuration
- 4.1 Powering on the RS8000/8600
- 4.2 Starting the Command Line Interface
- 4.3 Configuration Changes and Saving the Configuration File
- 4.4 Setting the Basic System Information
- 4.5 Setting Up Passwords
- 4.6 Setting Up SNMP
- 4.7 Setting the DNS Domain Name and Address
- 4.8 Setting the SYSLOG Parameters
- 4.9 Using Redundant Control Modules
- 5 Managing Software
- Appendix A Troubleshooting
- Appendix B International SaFety Information
- Index

Riverstone Networks RS 8000/8600 Switch Router Getting Started Guide xix
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2-1 Front view of a fully loaded RS 8000 chassis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Figure 2-2 Front view of a fully loaded RS 8600 chassis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Figure 2-3 Front panel of the Control Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Figure 2-4 Front view of an RS 8000 AC power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Figure 2-5 Front view of an RS 8600 AC power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Figure 2-6 Front view of an RS 8000 DC power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Figure 2-7 Front view of an RS 8600 DC power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Figure 2-8 Front panel of RS 8600 Switching Fabric module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Figure 2-9 Front panel of 10/100Base-TX line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Figure 2-10 10/100Base-TX RJ-45 connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Figure 2-11 Front panel of 10/100Base-TX line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Figure 2-12 10/100Base-TX RJ-45 connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Figure 2-13 Front panel of 4 MB 100Base-FX line card (MMF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23
Figure 2-14 Front panel of 100Base-FX SFP line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24
Figure 2-15 Front panel of 1000Base-SX line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26
Figure 2-16 Front panel of 1000Base-LX line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28
Figure 2-17 Front panel of 1000Base-LLX line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
Figure 2-18 Front panel of 1000Base-T line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31
Figure 2-19 1000Base-T RJ-45 connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32
Figure 2-20 Front panel of MPLS GBIC line card with one GBIC installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Figure 2-21 GBIC modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34
Figure 2-22 Gigabit GBIC line cards with one GBIC installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36
Figure 2-23 GBIC modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36
Figure 2-24 Front panel of ATM OC-3c line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39
Figure 2-25 Front panel of ATM OC-12c MMF line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40
Figure 2-26 Front panel of ATM OC-12c SMF line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Figure 2-27 Front panel of POS OC-3c MMF line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-42
Figure 2-28 Front panel of POS OC-3c SMF line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-42
Figure 2-29 Front panel of POS OC-12c MMF line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
Figure 2-30 Front panel of POS OC-12c SMF line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44
Figure 2-31 Front panel of the MPLS POS-OC3c line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45
Figure 2-32 Front panel of the MPLS POS-OC12c line card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46
Figure 2-33 Front panel of Quad Serial – CE WAN line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47
Figure 2-34 LFH-60 high density connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49