So its been in place for awhile and I'm behind the times… sigh. Might be a bit old to. But not too much. I take it you can configure these like any other mikrotik/port i.e. bridge the fiber to the eth?
Dang young whipper snappers... Terri Kelley Network Engineer 254-697-6710 Farm to Market Broadband On Aug 27, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Scott Reed wrote: > Kind of along the same lines. Why use a media converter when Mikrotik offers > several units with SFP cages? > > On 8/27/2014 9:13 PM, Alexander Neilson wrote: >> Have you replaced cables / testing with other cables? We have seen more >> issues like this from bad cables than devices at the other end. >> >> For compatibility and management reasons we often use 2011LS (or above) >> routers as media converters because we can pull out a management VLAN as >> well. >> >> Other than that can you provide model numbers for the Media Converters you >> are using so we can advise? >> >> Regards >> Alexander >> >> Alexander Neilson >> Neilson Productions Limited >> >> alexan...@neilson.net.nz >> 021 329 681 >> 022 456 2326 >> >> On 28/08/2014, at 1:08 pm, Terri Kelley <net...@farm-market.net> wrote: >> >>> So started getting them on a 750GL as we sped things up to gig interfaces. >>> The link between the 750GL goes to a media converter to fiber back to media >>> converter to an HP switch. I've tried moving the 750 from one end to the >>> other of the fiber with the same results. It will occasionally show that >>> the link dies but comes right back up. So I'm thinking it doesn't like the >>> auto detect from the 750 to the media converters and those are not >>> programable. >>> So I guess my question is do y'all have suggestions either for better media >>> converters that I can set rate and duplex or perhaps switches with fiber >>> modules that I can set that on the ether side? >>> Other ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Terri Kelley >>> Network Engineer >>> 254-697-6710 >>> Farm to Market Broadband >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: >>> <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20140827/0e813a8b/attachment.html> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mikrotik mailing list >>> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >>> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>> >>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS >> _______________________________________________ >> Mikrotik mailing list >> Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com >> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >> >> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2014.0.4745 / Virus Database: 4007/8110 - Release Date: 08/27/14 >> >> > > -- > Scott Reed > Owner > NewWays Networking, LLC > Wireless Networking > Network Design, Installation and Administration > Mikrotik Advanced Certified > www.nwwnet.net > (765) 855-1060 (765) 439-4253 Toll-free (855) 231-6239 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20140827/2bce6a5a/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
