White Box Port and Faceplate Labeling

Unlike the GigaVUE-OS, the port number on a Certified Traffic Aggregation White Box (a white box) is a whole number, starting at one (1). CLI show commands display the faceplate numbering of all the ports on a white box chassis, as well as a mapping of the faceplate port number to the GigaVUE-OS port number and of the GigaVUE-OS port number to the faceplate port number.

Use the following CLI command to display faceplate numbering of all ports on a white box. Issue this command on a white box that is configured and whose operational status is up.

(config) show chassis box-id 3 faceplate-numbering

ONIE Faceplate Numbering:

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

| 1 | 3 | 5 | ... | 43| 45| 47| | 49| 51|

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

| 2 | 4 | 6 | ... | 44| 46| 48| | 50| 52|

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

GigaVUE-OS Faceplate Numbering:

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

| x1| x3| x5| ... |x43|x45|x47| | q1| q3|

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

| x2| x4| x6| ... |x44|x46|x48| | q2| q4|

+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+

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x1..x48 : 10G ports

q1..q4 : 40G ports

Use the following CLI command to display the mapping of the faceplate port number to the GigaVUE-OS port number:

(config) # show port faceplate-number-mapping port-list 3/1/21,3/1/50..51,3/1/3..7

GigaVUE-OS Port Numbering: 3/1/x21,3/1/q2..q3,3/1/x3..x7

Use the following CLI command to display the mapping of the GigaVUE-OS port number to the faceplate port number:

(config) # show port port-number-mapping port-list 3/1/x1..x48,3/1/q1..q4

Faceplate Port Numbering: 3/1/1..48,3/1/49..52

When a card is not configured, the port mapping commands display an error message as follows:

(config) # show port faceplate-number-mapping port-list 3/1/1

Invalid port '3/1/1': invalid port syntax

When a card is not on a white box, the port mapping commands display an error message as follows:

(config) # show port port-number-mapping port-list 1/3/x1

% This command must be issued to a white box node.

For 40Gb ports that can be programmed to split to four SFP+ ports using an octopus cable or cable splitter, the subports are identified as follows:

1/1/48.1..48.2

This is equivalent to 1/1/x48..x49 on the GigaVUE TA Series.

For more information on white boxes and the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), refer to GigaVUE-OS Installation Guide on a White Box.