RE: out of band management gear

[<Vinny_Abello () Dell com>]

Dell - Internal Use - Confidential 

Just ran into that exact problem with Cisco Nexus 2232TM-E FEX's. They only do 10Gb/1Gb and won't step down to 100Mb. 
Couldn't connect some newer gear's Ethernet management ports to the management network as a result and have to get a 
different model FEX like the 2248TP-E just for that. The devices in question are current generation too and only 
support 100Mb for the management ports. My question was less about why the 2232TM-E's couldn't step down to 100Mb, but 
rather why in this day and age do we have something that doesn't do 1Gb, even on a management port?

-Vinny

-----Original Message-----
From: joel jaeggli [mailto:joelja () bogus com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:17 PM
To: Randy Carpenter; Richard Hesse
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: out of band management gear

On 2/21/14, 12:27 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 are a substantial number of 10Gb/s switch that cannot do tri-rate
on copper sfps.

in previous $job oob--ilo-ports doing WOL/ and cdu(s) were the annoying
100Mbs/s only devices. terminal servers (all advocent in this case) made
the jump aleady.

> thanks,
> -Randy
>
> --
> Randy Carpenter
> Vice President - IT Services
> First Network Group, Inc.
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > We're really pleased with the Perle IOLAN line. They even have a gigabit
> > port without a $10k price tag. Amazing!
> >
> > It really dumbfounds me why so many vendors are still putting 10/100
> > Ethernet ports on their OOB management (looking at you OpenGear).
> > Especially a PITA today since many switchports today don't support links
> > speeds less than a gigabit.
> >
> > -richard
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco () hotmail com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > > I wonder if anyone has good experiences to share with out-of-band hardware?
> > > I'm looking for a good OOB hardware vendor.  I need to manage my
> > > routers/switches/firewalls in a datacenter located overseas, and I'm
> > > looking to setup a good serial console server via an OOB link.
> > > I've been looking at Lantronix, OpenGear, Raritan...but they all seem to
> > > have the same basic features.  I'm having trouble really differentiating
> > > them.
> > > I'm interested in analog modem, cellular options for my OOB link.  Or even
> > > a secondary internet circuit either wired or wifi if the DC has that option
> > > available.
> > > Any good suggestions or experiences with a current OOB solution out there?
> > >  What are you doing for your OOB management?
> > > thanks,Hank