[73482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinay Bannai)
Tue Aug 24 18:39:30 2004
Reply-To: "Vinay Bannai" <bannai@pacbell.net>
From: "Vinay Bannai" <bannai@pacbell.net>
To: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:38:49 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Also, some of the SFP vendors did not necessarily provide all the optical
power reading, transmit bias current, voltage, temperature etc few years
ago. Nowadays it is more common for the SFP vendors to provide this
information (and in a standard fashion) enabling system vendors to be more
"bold" about displaying these parameters from their CLI/management systems.
Vinay Bannai
Luminous Networks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior
>
> * 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.
