90 | Installing NICs in CX xx55, DX, EX xx60, and SteelFusion Core Appliances
Identifying interface names
17. Connect the power cords.
18. Connect the NIC cables.
19. Power up the appliance and check the status lights.
For details about the NIC status lights, see
Appendix C, “NIC Status Lights for xx60, xx55, and xx50
To test NIC connections in the SteelHead
1. Connect to the SteelHead CLI.
For detailed information, see the
Riverbed Command-Line Interface Reference Manual
.
2. Enter enable mode. At the system prompt, enter the following command:
amnesiac > enable
amnesiac #
3. Verify that the NIC is correctly installed.
For example, to verify a Four-Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet PCIe card, at the system prompt enter
the following command:
amnesiac #show hardware all
Hardware revision: A
Mainboard: Blue Dell Motherboard, 425-00135-01
Slot 0: .......... 4 Port Copper GigE PCI-E Network Bypass Card, 410-00044-01
Note:
SteelHead xx60 appliances require RiOS 6.5.4 or later to recognize add-on NICs in conjunction with the
appliance’s onboard ports, and CX xx55 appliances require RiOS 7.0.4 or later. Upgrade to an appropriate RiOS
version and enter the
in-path reset-iface
command to recognize all ports.
Identifying interface names
The interface names for the NICs in the SteelHead Management Console and the CLI are a combination
of the slot number and the port pairs (lan<slot>_<pair>, wan<slot>_<pair>). For example, if a four-port
NIC is located in slot 1 of your appliance, the interface names are lan1_0, wan1_0, lan1_1, and wan1_1
respectively.
Configuring a SteelHead EX NIC for data interfaces
SteelHead EX appliances support installing a Four-Port TX Copper Gigabit Ethernet card (410-00047-
01/NIC-003-4TX) and configuring it with data interfaces. Support for SteelFusion traffic was introduced
in EX 2.1; support for ESXi traffic was introduced in EX 3.5.
Data interfaces are identified by ethX_Y notation, where the denotes a data NIC, X denotes the slot, and
Y denotes the interface/port on the slot (such as eth0_0, eth0_1, eth0_2, and eth0_3).
When you add a NIC to a SteelHead EX appliance, the system automatically configures the card as
additional LAN/WAN interfaces and only usable for optimization. Follow the steps in this section to
configure it as a NIC with data interfaces.