I have seen several Fail To Wire (FTW) switches in the past. I never found them to be worthwhile, personally for a few reasons
- Only available in Copper. - You can't FTW optical since you need an OEO conversion - Failure scenarios were limited - Our sites didn't have backup power, so it was pointless as we would lose the rest of the gear as well Just my $.02 Kevin On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM Craig Smith via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone out there aware of a fail safe switch/router/1U server where upon > power failure or watchdog event 2 ports would fail to pass through > data, but could also be assigned an IP address and act as a bridge in > "normal" mode? The desire is to have an appliance that could perform > monitoring and send telemetry in between a customer device and an Internet > connection but not create a single point of failure or require multiple ISP > handoffs. > > Best, > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Y7JZATLRDCXOHWBH7NFGAQNSVJW2YTJA/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JEAZ47MKKDWILHHD3RLM6PV2HKE54HM3/
