That wouldn't be unprecedented. That's how Telrad Compact works. It
picks a port on bootup. If you want both cables connected then you have
to disable a port on your switch.
I'm not sure what the rationale for that is, but I can guess. The
alternative's would be bridging the ports together or having a software
selector for which port is your data port. If the ports are bridged (as
they are in Trango Apex Lynx for example) then connecting both at once
can create a switch loop. If the ports are software selected there has
to be a default. Suppose the default was copper, but you only plugged
in the SFP....a factory default then requires a tower climb to fix.
So having the device pick one port automatically removes some
opportunity for self inflicted pain. I might rather be able to
configure the copper as an OOB managment port, or use it to feed another
device, but I think this way isn't insane either.
On 2/5/2020 4:00 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
I just hooked a fiber line up to one of my EPMP3000 AP's that was
having Ethernet problems. But i didn't have a chance to test it on
the bench first. I don't really see any settings to change the
Copper/SFP independently. If the Copper interface is up, then it will
choose that over the Fiber interface? That's what it's acting
like. The Copper has to be physically down, or the SFP Won't pass
traffic. Am I missing something, or is that normal.
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