Quad Gbe Ports Via The Front Panel And Backplane; Dual 10 Gbe; Remote Boot Bios - GE OpenVPX VPXcel6 SBC622 Hardware Reference Manual

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2.1.9 Quad GbE Ports via the Front Panel and Backplane

The SBC622 supports four Ethernet LANs with four Intel Ethernet controllers

provided by the Intel 82580.

Front panel or backplane selection of the GbE port is made by the onboard

jumper, E7 at points 5‐6; 10Base‐T, 100Base‐TX and 1000Base‐T options are

supported via a front panel RJ45 connector or selectable to the backplane by

routing to P4 per Open VPX and VITA 46.7.

• Front Panel selection of the GbE port includes two status LEDs displaying

speed and link activity on the RJ45 receptacle

• Backplane selection of the GbE port provides no LED support

• Ports 1 and 2 provide 10/100/1000‐T support and routed to P4 (one channel

mux'd with the Front Panel)

• Ports 3 and 4 provide 10/100/1000‐BX support and routed to P4

GbE ports support remote boot from either the Front or Rear configuration.

The SBC622 supports Dual 10 GbE Ports 1 and 2 that are controlled by the Intel

82599 Ethernet Controller.

• Dual 10 GbE (1000BASE‐KX4) is routed to P1.

The SBC622 supports remote booting on the GbE Quad ports 1‐4 and Dual 10 GbE

ports 1‐2 using the Intel PXE Boot firmware Ethernet BIOS firmware. Refer to

Section 3.3 Remote Ethernet Booting on page 64.

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