Lol. Figuring out port assignments shouldn't be like re-living Advanced > Calculus in high school. > > Thanks to the poster who provided the KB article, that was really helpful. > > Things are even worse on the MX80-48T chassis with its duodecimal notation (JNCIx test authors must appreciate) and totally crazy marking on the device front. I never can find the right port at the first attempt.
To be honest, vendors could improve quite a lot in this area. Proper design would save us a good deal of headache. From just sane marking of port/port-groups on chassis/cards to ID LEDs for ports. For example, I would prefer if the totally useless "traffic" LEDs indicated something sensible instead of just blinking forever. Or, for example, some switches have LED modes, selected by a front button, for things like highlighting half/full-duplex ports still in the 21th century. Why not convert this ritualistic stuff into something more useful, like, say, turn particular port LED blue when user types "request interface highlight <ge-blah/blah>"? But for some reason vendors don't care and even switches/routers with ID-shields are rare things despite modern DCs and POPs are becoming more and more dense. Same story with "craft interface" and front panels. Most of them are as useful as a punched card reader would be at their place. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
