The entity hierarchy for the FDDI module is:
Node___FDDI____Station____Link
| |
| |_PHY Port
|_Port
The FDDI module incorporates the functions and operations
defined in the ANSI FDDI Token Ring Media Access Control (MAC),
the ANSI FDDI Token Ring Physical Layer Protocol (PHY), FDDI
Physical Layer Medium Dependent (PMD), Station Management (SMT)
specifications, parts of the ISO 8802-1 (IEEE 802.1) Addressing,
Internetworking and Network Management, and parts of the ISO
8802-2 (IEEE 802.2) Logical Link Control (LLC) specifications.
The FDDI entity is the top-level entity in the hierarchy of
entities belonging to the FDDI module.
An FDDI STATION entity represents an access point to the service
offered by the FDDI module. The FDDI data link can be monitored
and controlled through DNA network management. The station-name
refers to the station managed by this command.
The FDDI STATION LINK entity is a subentity of the FDDI STATION
entity. The fddi station link subentity provides the management
view of LLC and the FDDI MAC. FDDI allows stations to be either
single MAC or dual MAC and therefore there can be up to two link
subentities for each station. In most cases, a station has at
least one link entity. Concentrators may have no link entity and
are not addressable on the FDDI, though they may be using other
communications channels.
An FDDI STATION PHY PORT entity provides the management view of
the fddi station phy port and the fddi pmd. Each station has at
least one phy port and a concentrator is a device that has at
least one phy port of type M. A dual attached station or dual
attached concentrator has a phy port type A and type B. A single
attached station has a phy port of type B.
An FDDI PORT entity represents an access point to the service
offered by the FDDI module. A client transmits and receives data
through a port. Ports are created and deleted by client use of
open and close service interface procedures. The port-name refers
to the port managed by this command.