Media server connection Passport 8600 series

[jsammy]

My problem is this: NOC personnel recently requested fiber connectivity through our network for their media server and encoders.

The only multiport fiber connection available in my network is through an 8624FX module in a Passport 8006 chassis. Normally, this module is only useful for backbone applications, and I suspect the only way to directly connect boxes is to add a Gigabit ethernet module, but one of my collegues suggested it might be possible, as long as the boxes have fixed IP addresses.

Question: Is this possible using this particular setup, and what steps would be necessary?

 

[anthonyanderberg]

There shouldn't be any differences in what you can configure an 8624FX port to do verses an 8616SX or other routing blades. We might need more information to give advice from an architecture point-of-view... in particular some details of what your subnets/VLANs look like might be helpful.

Do you want these boxes to talk to anything else on your network? If not you can setup a by-port VLAN with those two ports added, then simply not assign that VLAN an IP address. Remember that when creating by-port VLANs you need to add those same ports to a spanning tree group first, even if you disable spanning tree later.