On 26/03/2014 17:44, Aled Morris wrote:
Especially since the distinction between a switch and a router is being eroded.
This. When is a switch a router and a router a switch these days?
But I think I feel the same shudder that Neil does when someone suggests out loud that they are connecting L2 devices to the fabric :-)
Same here. I think one of the key things to not get wrong is "whatever you do, don't allow your L2 loop prevention protocol (which may be on by default) to leak out towards the exchange". Of course most exchanges now are much better at filtering this than in the past - mainly because the vendors finally implemented features we'd been asking about having for years.
But back to the original question, media converters in a network can be a real pain to troubleshoot as they are usually unmanaged or very lightly managed... but we've all had times where we've had to put them in the network somewhere. Be prepared to blame a media converter first without much evidence if you're going to use it.
Paul. -- Paul Thornton
