Dell - Internal Use - Confidential Just to clarify, it wasn't a Dell product I was referring to, but rather the Ethernert management port of a Brocade fibre channel switch... which again, why only 100Mb? Is there that much of a cost difference when mass producing this stuff?
Dedicated ports on our iDRACs are 1Gb for OOB on the iDRAC7 (latest generation), but everything prior was 100Mb, I think. Dell does shared ports as well, but I personally always use the dedicated ports. That being said, I have nothing to do with any group in the hardware side of Dell at all. -Vinny -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Bowden [mailto:ja...@photon.com] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:16 AM To: Abello, Vinny; joe...@bogus.com; rcar...@network1.net; richard.he...@weebly.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: out of band management gear > From: vinny_abe...@dell.com [mailto:vinny_abe...@dell.com] > Just ran into that exact problem with Cisco Nexus 2232TM-E FEX's. They only > do 10Gb/1Gb and won't step down to 100Mb. Couldn't connect some newer > gear's Ethernet management ports to the management network as a result > and have to get a different model FEX like the 2248TP-E just for that. The > devices in question are current generation too and only support 100Mb for > the management ports. My question was less about why the 2232TM-E's > couldn't step down to 100Mb, but rather why in this day and age do we have > something that doesn't do 1Gb, even on a management port? It's not just you guys at Dell. HP are still doing the same thing with iLO ports (for dedicated iLO ports anyway, shared ports (which are a whole new level of WTF were you thinking?) are normally 1gb and will operate just fine at that connection rate). Jamie
