Identify 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. You can power on and use all PICs.

On the MPC5E-40G10G, the PFE0 hosts PIC0 and PIC2 while PFE1 hosts PIC1 and PIC3. You can power on only two PICs (PIC0 or PIC2 and PIC1 or PIC3). You must keep the remaining PICs 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), the system powers on PIC0 (12x10GE) and PIC1 (12x10GE) and keeps PIC2 (3x40GE) and PIC3 (3x40GE) off.

• You must configure at least one PIC on every PFE in the power-off state. PIC0 and PIC2 belong to PFE0 and PIC1 and PIC3 belong to PFE1.

• If you configure an invalid PIC combination, the system automatically powers on the default PICs (PIC0 and PIC1) and displays a syslog message about the invalid selection. When you configure an invalid PIC combination and commit the change, the system completes the commit and does not show a commit failure message.

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