Cisco Port Adapters

Updated August 28, 2001

August 24, 2001

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Products Affected

Problem Description

Although TR-ISL is not available on a PA-2FE-TX/FX, the port adapter accepts the tr-isl encapsulation command. As this feature is not available on this PA, configuration of it should not be allowed.

Background

No TR-ISL available on Port Adapters (PAs) with i82543 (Livengood) chipset.

A show controller command for following cards shows the chipset used:

PA-2FEISL-TX/FX:
'Hardware is AMD Laguna'
!--- TR-ISL fully supported on this one.

PA-FE-TX/FX:
'Hardware is DEC21140A'
!--- TR-ISL supported with limit of 1500 bytes maximum transmission unit (MTU).

PA-2FE-TX/FX:
'Hardware is i82543 (Livengood)'
!--- TR-ISL not available. 

Problem Symptoms

After configuring TR-ISL on the PA-2FE-TX/FX, no TR-ISL traffic is seen leaving this interface.

Workaround/Solution

Workaround is:

• Use the PA-FE-TX/FX adapter

• Use the old PA-2FEISL-TX/FX adapter (This option is not advisable; see the note below:)

  Note:?The use of the old PA-2FEISL-TX/FX adapter is not recommend because of the following:

  • Use of the PA-FE-TX/FX adapter for TR-ISL limits the MTU to 1500 bytes. For more information on this subject refer to the Token Ring Inter-Switch Link document.

  • The PA-2FEISL-TX/FX adapter is at End-Of-Life For more information on this subject refer to the Product Bulletin, No. 1225 document

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