Lucent Technologies 9076 User Manual

Verify SP Switch Router Adapter card from router

SP Switch Router Adapter Guide - 1.4 Update 2

 

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You can execute a ping command that will verify the connection between the switch node and 
the SP Switch Router Adapter card’s inbound and outbound data paths. 

You must make sure that the SP Switch Router Adapter card has been unfenced before 

executing the ping.

Log in as 

root

 to the SP Switch Router.

Enter a ping ip_address command where ip_address is the IP address of the target SP 
Switch Router Adapter card.

# ping xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn    

Refer to the GRF Reference Guide for a description of the ping command.  

The grcard command returns information about the status of all installed media cards. Output 
from logs and other system reporting functions refer to the SP Switch Router Adapter card as 

DEV1_v1

 or 

dev1

.            

Enter:

# grcard -v       

Here is a sample of the slot, media, and state information returned from the grcard command:

# grcard -v

Slot    HWtype    State

0       HSSI_V1   running

1       ATM_OC3_V1      running

2       DEV1_V1   running

3       FDDI_V2   running

The SP Switch Router Adapter card resides in slot 2 and its state is reported as running. 

Refer to the command descriptions in the GRF Reference Guide for a description of grcard.  

Media card states       

The following SP Switch Router media card states are reported:

POWER-UP

- initial state of a card at system power on   

BOOT-REQUESTED

- card has requested its run-time code  

DUMPING

- card is being dumped   

LOADING

- card is receiving run-time code   

CONFIGURING

- card has requested its configuration tables    

RUNNING

- card is configured and operating          

NOT-RESPONDING

- card does not respond to requests from the management software 

PANIC

- card has encountered a system fault           

HELD_RESET

- card is being held in reset state              

STATE_UNKNOWN

- state cannot be determined