The card in the general sense may have been evil, and I know for a fact it couldn't sustain the throughput that the normal FE boards were capable of, but it was still an FE port, or at least the dual port ones were.
I have the PA-2FE-TX/ISL board in a 7206VXR for many years, moving a lotta bits, and honestly have to say I never had any real problems with it. I used it as a DSL agg router, and used the 2FE card to create a dot1q trunk back to the switch it was connected into. Anyway that was just my experience with that board, but it will work as a pair of FE ports for sure. Needless to say I had no need for tokenring... --- Howard Leadmon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cisco-nsp- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin M. Streiner > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] PA-FE-TX vs PA-FE-TX/ISL > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Bernd Ueberbacher wrote: > > > I'm still learning for my CCNA (to calm my examination nerves *G*) and > > currently fooling around with a 7206 nonVXR router. It has a NPE-200 and > > one PA-FE-TX/ISL. I'd like to get a second interface and had a look on > > eBay, but I'm a bit confused (again). There are PA-FE-TX modules which > > are much more expensive than those $80,- PA-FE-TX/ISL, but what exactly > > is the difference. They are EoL, so I can't find much information. Does > > the name indicate that they just support ISL but no dot1q or is there > > something else? > > There's a reason why these cards are practically give-aways on the used > market :) > > Gert is correct - the PA-FEISL-TX is evil. It has nothing to do with ISL > vs. 802.1q support. It supports Token Ring ISL, which is not the same > thing. It caused a lot of confusion earlier in the life cycle of the > 71/7200 router line because people assumed that since it says "Ethernet" > on the card and it has normal-looking TX or FX ports that it will behave > exactly like a 'real' Ethernet interface. From what I recall, at the > time, Cisco didn't do a very good job of noting the differences between > the two nearly identical looking cards and caused some of their customers > quite a few headaches in the process (raises hand)... > > Here is the End of Sale/End of Life announcement from Cisco: > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2033/prod_eol_notice09186a0 > 08032d6e3.html > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
