[115743] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Point to Point Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Wed Jul 8 10:35:21 2009
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>
To: "'David Barak'" <thegameiam@yahoo.com>,
"'Andre Oppermann'" <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>,
"'Ivan Pepelnjak'" <ip@ioshints.info>
In-Reply-To: <236301.31359.qm@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:35:07 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
There are lots of great little cable testers that can "loop" an Ethernet
link or even blink the switchport (this one is copper only):
http://www.jdsu.com/products/communications-test-measurement/products/a-z-pr
oduct-list/lanscaper.html
The remote-triggered is harder, but there are a number of switches I have
seen that have some form of line testing built in, so that might be close to
a decent solution. One example is the "Integrated Cable Test" and Optical
Transceiver Diagnostics in the Dell PowerConnect switches.
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: David Barak [mailto:thegameiam@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:47 AM
To: 'Andre Oppermann'; nanog@nanog.org; Ivan Pepelnjak
Subject: RE: Point to Point Ethernet
> > Do you think this is useful? Maybe vendors will
> hear me/us.
> >
> > --
> > Andre
We also need functional remote loop testing, of the "remote hands guy plugs
in a loopback plug" or "I send remote-triggered loop" type.
David Barak
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