[73481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Aug 24 18:24:05 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:23:21 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* lane@laneandmimi.com (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@ai.net (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.
