[j-nsp] MX80 port numbering

[Pavel Lunin]

Lol.  Figuring out port assignments shouldn't be like re-living Advanced
> Calculus in high school.
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> Thanks to the poster who provided the KB article, that was really helpful.
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Things are even worse on the MX80-48T chassis with its duodecimal notation
(JNCIx test authors must appreciate) and totally crazy marking on the
device front. I never can find the right port at the first attempt.

To be honest, vendors could improve quite a lot in this area. Proper design
would save us a good deal of headache. From just sane marking of
port/port-groups on chassis/cards to ID LEDs for ports. For example, I
would prefer if the totally useless "traffic" LEDs indicated something
sensible instead of just blinking forever. Or, for example, some switches
have LED modes, selected by a front button, for things like highlighting
half/full-duplex ports still in the 21th century. Why not convert this
ritualistic stuff into something more useful, like, say, turn particular
port LED blue when user types "request interface highlight <ge-blah/blah>"?
But for some reason vendors don't care and even switches/routers with
ID-shields are rare things despite modern DCs and POPs are becoming more
and more dense.

Same story with "craft interface" and front panels. Most of them are as
useful as a punched card reader would be at their place.