Cisco WAE-674-K9 - Wide Area Application Engine 674 Installation Manual
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Chapter 5 WAE Inline Network Adapter
Inline Network Adapter Cabling Requirements
5-6
Cisco Wide Area Application Engine 7341, 7371, and 674 Hardware Installation Guide
OL-15012-02
Note You must retain the same link speed from one end of the connection to the other
end. Inline adapter interfaces are able to autonegotiate link speeds. If you
configure any of your connecting interfaces for Fast Ethernet (whether on a switch
or a router), your WAE inline adapter uses Fast Ethernet. If you configure any of
your connecting interfaces for Gigabit Ethernet, your WAE inline adapter uses
Gigabit Ethernet. Speed and duplex settings are port specific so that two inline
ports can negotiate different speeds independently.
If you are connecting a WAE inline appliance between two devices using Gigabit
Ethernet, you can use either straight-through cables, crossover cables, or any
combination of the two cable types, regardless of the type of device. However, for
consistency, we recommend that you use straight-through cables for all Gigabit
Ethernet connections.
Table 5-3 shows the cable requirements for WAE and non-WAE connections when
you are using Gigabit Ethernet end to end.
Ta b l e 5-3 Cable Requirements for WAE Connections Using Gigabit
Ethernet
Connection Required Cable
Switch to switch (no WAE) Crossover or straight-through
Switch to router (no WAE) Crossover or straight-through
Router to router (no WAE) Crossover or straight-through
Switch to WAE and
WA E t o R o u t e r
Crossover or straight-through
Crossover or straight-through
Switch to WAE and
WAE to Switch
Crossover or straight-through
Crossover or straight-through
Router to WAE and
WA E t o R o u t e r
Crossover or straight-through
Crossover or straight-through
WA E t o WA E Crossover or straight-through
Some switches support automatic medium-dependent interface crossover
(MDIX). You can configure MDIX by using the mdix auto global configuration
switch command. If your switch supports MDIX, you do not need to follow these