Interfaces

This chapter provides overview information about the types of interfaces supported on 7705 SAR-Hm series routers.

Topics in this chapter include:

• Configuration overview

  • Chassis IOM and MDAs

• Ports

  • Port types

  • Port features

    • Port State and Operational State

• Port Cross-Connect (PXC)

  • PXC Terminology

  • Physical Port in Cross Connect (Loopback) Mode

  • PXC Sub-Ports

  • Port Statistics

  • Basic PXC Provisioning

  • Health Monitoring on the PXC Sub-Ports

  • Configuration Example

• MTU configuration guidelines

  • Default and maximum MTU values

  • MTU considerations over a cellular port

  • MTU considerations over the WLAN interface

• Serial transport over raw sockets

  • Raw socket configuration

  • Raw socket packet processing

  • Raw socket squelch functionality

• Configuration Process Overview

• Configuration Notes