[169360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: out of band management gear
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Bresley)
Fri Feb 21 16:17:51 2014
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:17:15 -0600
From: Jeremy Bresley <brez@brezworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2/21/2014 2:27 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> OpenGear's newer stuff is Gigabit (SFP even).
>
> I've not seen any real switch made in the last decade that has a problem with 100Mb/s connections. Ancient cisco, maybe had issues.
>
There's several devices that are 1/10Gb and do NOT support 10/100Mb.
Cisco Nexus 5000/5500s, Brocade VDX series stuff, etc.
In our new data center, the only 10/100 ports are a couple blades in our
Nexus 7018s put there just to provide these lower-speed connections to
devices that needed them. Expensive options in a fully loaded chassis
just for a couple lower-end devices that could easily justify a couple
dollars more to get a Gig PHY instead of the older 100Mb PHY chip.
Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley
