3com 7600 Benutzerhandbuch

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For the purpose of forming bridged-LAN environments, the 7600 Card 
provides up to 16 internal bridges that can be configured by 
management. On setup, one bridge is allocated to each bridged-LAN 
environment that is to operate in the 7600 Card. Each local LAN segment 
is then attached to a port of the bridge corresponding to the 
bridged-LAN environment in which it is to operate. bridges are 
configured by management in the Fast Setup (see Chapter 3) or in the 
Virtual LAN Configuration menu see (Chapter 5). For management 
purposes the bridges are numbered from 0 to 3 in each one of the four 
contexts. Figure 11-5 shows two local bridged-LAN environments, 
Engineering and Finance, connected to bridges on a 7600 Card. 

Figure 11-5   Bridged-LAN environments connected to a 7600 Card

In Chapter 12, the possibility of connecting bridges in the 7600 to the 
ATM network is discussed. For each bridge, an ATM connection can be 
configured through which the bridge is attached to an Emulated LAN (see 
“Bridges in the 7600 Card” on page 12-10).

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