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Do nonswitch fabric-enabled line cards work with a SFM in the chassis?

April 26, 2017cards chassis line sfm

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Do nonswitch fabric-enabled line cards work with a SFM in the chassis?

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Nonswitch fabric-enabled cards do not utilize the switch fabric, but they do work and use the switching BUS for data forwarding. In this case, the SFM operates in either truncated or BUS-only mode, depending on the presence of other fabric-enabled modules.