[f-nsp] copper SFPs on serveriron

[Joe Abley]

Hi all,

I had a quick saunter through the archives and the foundry docs  
regarding this, but I couldn't find anything. I presume I'm doing  
something stupid; hopefully someone here can point it out.

I have some copper SFPs which appear not to be working correctly in a  
ServerIron. Details follow.

On this switch:

   SW: Version 08.1.00eT24 Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Foundry Networks,  
Inc.
       Compiled on Feb 03 2004 at 18:53:48 labeled as WSR08100e
   HW: ServerIron 100 SLB, SYSIF version 21

I have a copper SFPs inserted in ports 2/7 and 2/8, configured as  
follows:

interface ethernet 2/7
  port-name "some linux box"
  gig-default neg-full-auto
!
interface ethernet 2/8
  port-name "some linux box"

(The extra config line in 2/7 was me seeing if the duplex setting  
made a difference; it doesn't seem to.) Both ports are connected to  
copper gig ports on Dell poweredge servers running Fedora Core, but  
show down/down on the switch (see below). "show media" returns the  
following:

SSH at s1.lax1#show media
2/1:M-SX 2/2:M-SX 2/3:M-SX 2/4:M-SX 2/5:   2/6:M-SX 2/7:   2/8:
SSH at s1.lax1#

The multimode SFPs in 2/1 thru 2/4 and 2/6 seem to be recognised fine  
(and they work fine too), but the copper SFPs in 2/7 and 2/8 don't  
appear in that list.

Is there some special magic I need to make 2/7 and 2/8 work?

SSH at s1#show int eth 2/7
GigabitEthernet2/7 is down, line protocol is down
   Hardware is GigabitEthernet, address is 0004.80fe.f800 (bia  
0004.80fe.f826)
   Configured speed 1Gbit, actual unknown, configured duplex fdx,  
actual unknown
   Member of L2 VLAN ID 42, port is untagged, port state is BLOCKING
   STP configured to ON, priority is level0, flow control enabled
   mirror disabled, monitor disabled
   Not member of any active trunks
   Not member of any configured trunks
   Port name is "some linux box"
   MTU 1518 bytes, encapsulation ethernet
   300 second input rate: 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
   300 second output rate: 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
   0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
   Received 0 broadcasts, 0 multicasts, 0 unicasts
   0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 ignored
   0 runts, 0 giants, DMA received 0 packets
   0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
   Transmitted 0 broadcasts, 0 multicasts, 0 unicasts
   0 output errors, 0 collisions, DMA transmitted 0 packets
SSH at s1.lax1#

SSH at s1#sh int eth2/8
GigabitEthernet2/8 is down, line protocol is down
   Hardware is GigabitEthernet, address is 0004.80fe.f800 (bia  
0004.80fe.f827)
   Configured speed 1Gbit, actual unknown, configured duplex fdx,  
actual unknown
   Member of L2 VLAN ID 42, port is untagged, port state is BLOCKING
   STP configured to ON, priority is level0, flow control enabled
   mirror disabled, monitor disabled
   Not member of any active trunks
   Not member of any configured trunks
   Port name is "some linux box"
   MTU 1518 bytes, encapsulation ethernet
   300 second input rate: 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
   300 second output rate: 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec, 0.00% utilization
   0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
   Received 0 broadcasts, 0 multicasts, 0 unicasts
   0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 ignored
   0 runts, 0 giants, DMA received 0 packets
   0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
   Transmitted 0 broadcasts, 0 multicasts, 0 unicasts
   0 output errors, 0 collisions, DMA transmitted 0 packets
SSH at s1.lax1#

[root at n1 ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:B0:10:4A
           inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.10  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.63  Mask: 
255.255.255.192
           inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:feb0:104a/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:1793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:2522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:115326 (112.6 KiB)  TX bytes:161408 (157.6 KiB)
           Base address:0xecc0 Memory:fe9e0000-fea00000

[root at n1 ~]#
[root at n1 ~]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
         Supported ports: [ TP ]
         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                 1000baseT/Full
         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                 1000baseT/Full
         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
         Speed: Unknown! (65535)
         Duplex: Unknown! (255)
         Port: Twisted Pair
         PHYAD: 0
         Transceiver: internal
         Auto-negotiation: on
         Supports Wake-on: umbg
         Wake-on: d
         Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
         Link detected: no
[root at n1 ~]#