Re: out of band management gear

On 2/21/2014 2:27 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:

OpenGear's newer stuff is Gigabit (SFP even).

I've not seen any real switch made in the last decade that has a problem with 100Mb/s connections. Ancient cisco, maybe had issues.

There's several devices that are 1/10Gb and do NOT support 10/100Mb. Cisco Nexus 5000/5500s, Brocade VDX series stuff, etc. In our new data center, the only 10/100 ports are a couple blades in our Nexus 7018s put there just to provide these lower-speed connections to devices that needed them. Expensive options in a fully loaded chassis just for a couple lower-end devices that could easily justify a couple dollars more to get a Gig PHY instead of the older 100Mb PHY chip. Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley