[nsp] GEIP+ and GBIC-ZX

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 10:23 AM 11-09-02 -0400, German Martinez wrote:

This comes from Ariel Biener who ran some further testing:

>It seems GE-IP+ has a "feature" that you must not insert the card with the
>GBIC and the fibre connected to the router. You must insert the card
>with/without the GBIC, but no fibre connected. When removing a GBIC from
>the card (when the card is in the router), you must first remove the
>cable, then the GBIC, reinsert the GBIC, and then the cable. When done
>this way, the card will recognize the GBIC, we tried it today with various
>GBICs, ZX, LX, SX. It worked perfectly. We then tried it with the fibre,
>and it didn't work, as stated above. So, as long as this procedure is
>maintained, that is not the problem.

-Hank

>I'd like to hear as well about the GEIP+ cards.
>Anybody experiencing any kind of issues with those linecards ?
>
>We intent to put two of them in a single Cisco 7513.
>
>Thanks
>German
>
>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>
> > Running 12.0(21)S2 on two routers - a 7507 and a 7513.  GEIP+ with GBIC-ZX
> > installed in each.
> >
> > On 1 router we get:
> > Interface GigabitEthernet0/0(idb 0x60A4F2A0)
> > Hardware is 82543 (rev 2), network connection mode is auto
> > network link is up
> > loopback type is none
> > GBIC type is 1000BaseZX
> >
> > and on the other router we get:
> > Interface GigabitEthernet0/0(idb 0x60A4F2A0)
> > Hardware is 82543 (rev 2), network connection mode is auto
> > network link is up
> > loopback type is none
> > GBIC type is unknown 0
> >
> > Playing with the GBIC and the card we get inconsistent results.  Anyone
> > know of any problems with GBIC-ZX's and GEIP+ cards?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hank
> >
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