Front panel features, Chapter 1, Introduction – Lanner FW-8771 User Manual

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Introduction

Network Application Platforms

Chapter 1

Front Panel Features

F1 Power/Status/HDD LED

Power: If the LED is on it indicates that the system is powered on. If it is off, it indicates that the system is powered off.
Status: This LED is programmable. You could program it to display the operating status with the following behavior:
If the LED is green, it indicates that the system’s operational state is normal. If it is red, it indicates that the system is

malfunctioning.
HDD:

If the LED blinks, it indicates data access activities; otherwise, it remains off.

F2 LCD System Panel with keypad

The LCD System Panel can be programmed to display operating status and configuration information. For more details or

sample programming code, please refer to the Drivers and user’s manual CD.

F3 Console Port and Two USB 3.0 Ports

By using suitable rollover cable or RJ-45 to DB-9 console cable, you can connect to a computer terminal for diagnostic or

configuration purpose. Terminal Configuration Parameters: 115200 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit , no flow control.

F4 LAN1 Management Port (provided by Intel i210)

This FastEthernet port can be connected for configuration or troubleshooting purpose. A conformity with IPMI (Intelligent

Platform Management Interface) can be implemented through OPMA on this interface. It supports Preboot eXecution

Environment (PXE) (This feature can be enabled or disable in the BIOS; the default is disabled).

F5 Ethernet Ports (LAN2: non-bypass port, LAN3-LAN4: bypass pair; LAN5-LAN6: bypass pair; LAN7-LAN8: bypass pair)

LINK/ACT (Yellow)

On/Flashing: The port is linking and active in data transmission.

Off: The port is not linking.


SPEED (Green/Amber)

Amber: The connection speed is 1000Mbps.

Green: The connection speed is 100Mbps

Off: .The connection speed is 10Mbps.


The 7 LAN ports provided by Intel i210. Moreover, 3pairs (LAN3-LAN4, LAN5-LAN6, LAN7-LAN8) can be configured as LAN

bypass (Lanner Generation 3) when failure events occur. This feature can be enabled dynamically with a watch dog timer.

Refer to your User’s Manual CD for a sample implementation of this feature.

F6 Swappable Ethernet Modules (not available on model FW-8771A)

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LAN4 LAN5 LAN6 LAN7 LAN8

F6

Module: M1

Module: M2

F7

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