[c-nsp] Cisco Catalyst 2950 port partitioning?

G xlimitx at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 15:13:36 EST 2004


Well that explains that then.

Thanks!


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:14:50 -0800 (PST), Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, G wrote:
> 
> > This may be a stupid question to ask but why on the Catalyst 2950-24s
> > are each group of 8 ports seemingly partitioned by a yellow divider?
> > Is this just a decorative Cisco feature, or is this an logical
> > representation of the division of controllers for each 8 ports?  If
> > anyone has any insight on this, it would be great as I can't find
> > anything on CCO.
> 
> The physical jack hardware is made in modules of 8.  The 3524s are double
> 12-jack arrays.
> 
> The yellow borders are strictly decorative, following Cisco's color code
> of yellow = ethernet that seems to be universal across their product line,
> similar to light blue = console, datk blue = T1, black = aux, etc.
> 
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