You can bridge the ports as normal, however the SFP port on the 2011 is part of the same switch group as the 5 gig ports so you can have line speed switching just like media converters do it.
Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexan...@neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326 On 28/08/2014, at 1:31 pm, Terri Kelley <net...@farm-market.net> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
