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Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Tue Aug 24 18:25:32 2004 
* [email protected] (Lane Patterson) writes:
>> Can't wait until more routers start to incorporate inline optical
>> power readings in "show interface" commands the way Procket did :-)

* [email protected] (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.