Guidelines for Identifying Active PICs on MPC5E-40G10G

MPC5E contains two Packet Forwarding Engines (PFEs) and 4 fixed port PICs. On MPC5E-100G10G, the PFE0 hosts PIC0 and PIC1 while PFE1 hosts PIC2 and PIC3. All the PICs can be powered on and used.

On the MPC5E-40G10G, the PFE0 hosts PIC0 and PIC2 while PFE1 hosts PIC1 and PIC3. Only a maximum of two PICs (PIC0 or PIC2 and PIC1 or PIC3) can be powered on. The remaining PICs are required to be kept powered off.

This topic describes the guidelines to consider while identifying active PICs on the MPC5E (MPC5E-40G10G):

• By default, (i.e. without any CLI configuration), PIC0 (12x10GE) and PIC1 (12x10GE) are powered ON while PIC2 (3x40GE) and PIC3 (3x40GE) shall be powered OFF.

• At least one PIC on every PFE should be configured in power OFF state. PIC0 and PIC2 belong to PFE0 and PIC1 and PIC3 belong to PFE1 .

• If you configure an invalid PIC combination, the default PICs (PIC0 and PIC1) will be powered ON. Also, a syslog message is displayed to indicate the invalid PIC combination selected. When you configure an invalid PIC combination, and commit the change, the commit succeeds and a commit failure message is not displayed.

Table 1 lists the active PICs on MPC5E-40G10G based on the configuration.