On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Pieter Hulshoff <phulshof@aimvalley.nl> wrote:
On 24-6-2014 8:37, Saku Ytti wrote:
On (2014-06-23 11:13 +0200), Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
feature and market information for such a device, and I would welcome some feedback from interested people. Discussion about other types of smart SFPs would also be welcome. Feel free to contact me directly using the contact information below.
I'd do questionable things for subrate SFP, SFP which I can put to 1GE port and have 10M and 100M rates available. Or to 10GE port and get 1GE, 100M and 10M
Use case is network generation upgrade where you still have one or two 100M ports for MGMT ports etc.
I've seen this request from others as well. Do you have any proposal/preference to limit the data rate from the switch?
Seems like it would be just like emulating a media convertor. Drop any frames in excess of 100 Mbit? Perhaps buffer a little bit? If using the interface for any protocols, configuration might need to be made to adjust link costs.