> On 26 Mar 2014, at 17:53, "Paul Thornton" <p...@prt.org> wrote: > > >> 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.
Did they? I think other changes made this work! > > 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 I'll be trendy and say "that!"
