The other solution is to look closely and see if there are square little
holes for GBICs on the front. This is an easy tipoff that it's really a
GEIP.
:)
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Seriously, from what I could ever tell, there's no difference between the
"VIP" part of a GBIC and a VIP-2/50. They appear to be identical. Have you
tried sliding a PA into one of them?
- Daniel Golding
> -----Original Message-----
> From: José Domínguez [mailto:jad@network-services.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:10 PM
> To: jlewis@lewis.org
> Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] 7500 trouble
>
>
> > I'm building a 7500 and have run into trouble with a few of the
> VIP2-50's
> > we bought with it. 2 of them are identified as GEIP's rather than
> > VIP2-50's. I did some asking around on #cisco and was told that they
> > probably really are GEIP's, as GEIP's are basically modified VIP2-50's.
> >
>
> This is affirmaive ...
>
> > If that's the case, would they still have VIP2-50 labels next to their
> > handles? Is there any way to visually tell the two items apart
> other than
> > the EEPROM contents? Is there any way to force them to be VIP2-50's
> > (alter the EEPROM), or do I need to return them and find more VIP2-50's?
> >
>
> Yes, they would still have the VIP2-50 labeland the only way to tell
> them apart is installing them and checking the diagbus. I'm not
> aware of any way to change the identity (if that's what you want to
> call it). I have a bunch of those GEIP and am ready to replace them.
>
> José.
>
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