Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

Tue Aug 24 22:23:21 UTC 2004

* lane at 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 at 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.