Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

From: Niels Bakker (niels=)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 18:23:21 EDT


* (Lane Patterson) writes:
>> Can't wait until more routers start to incorporate inline optical
>> power readings in "show interface" commands the way Procket did :-)

* (Deepak Jain) adds:
> Don't SFPs provide this sort of optical digital diagnostics?

Yes, but hardly any vendor provides ways to extract this highly useful
information from the hardware.

I think the Cat6.5k does. The Foundry MG8 shows you the serial #'s of
inserted SFPs and XENPAKs in `show media'; useful in a different way.

        -- Niels.








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