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.