Now that I think about it more, the Plus had two modes shown in the
GUI. I think it was "Smart Mode" or something like that. In one mode
all the ports were in one switch group, and in the other mode they were
separated by internal VLAN's. If you wanted that VLAN mode on, but
wanted to get creative like map port 2 on one to port 4 on the other,
then that was where only Trango support could do it.
On the Lynx/Orion the settings for this are not obvious until you read
the manual. The OOB mode was one of the options that affected it, but
there was another one too. They had diagrams showing the pathways you'd
create when you set those options in different ways.
On 10/29/2020 2:39 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
On Giga/Apex Plus the ports were mapped 1 to 1, and there wasn't a way
to change that mapping through the normal means (but Trango could by
logging in as root and editing a VLAN config file).
On Giga/Apex Lynx the ports are all switched together in the default
config. You could change that behavior and the manual described a few
different modes, but in the default config it absolutely did work to
use SFP on one side and copper on the other.
I have not used Orion.....but it has the same software and instruction
manual as the Lynx, so I'd bet it's switched together on that one too.
On 10/29/2020 2:27 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
It's been years since I've had to mess with the configuration, but
something is rattling around in the back recesses of my mind. Can
you use the Copper port on one end of the link, and the SPF Port on
the other end of the link? Something keeps popping up in my mind
about virtual channels between interfaces, and the copper on one end
only talks to the copper on the other end and same for the SFP. Maybe
it was a different radio manufacturer that did that?
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