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Three new GLC-T-1000 SFPs

Latest ebay acquisition: three gigabit/s Cisco GLC-T SFPs for my three 2940 Catalyst switches at home, for 14,- EUR each.

These copper interfaces substitute the prior FX SFPs. A test setup with the green cable linking the new SFPs:

Greetings to the AFRA (Abteilung fuer Redundanz Abteilung)!

shake# show cdp neighbors 
Capability Codes: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge, B - Source Route Bridge
          S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater, P - Phone

Device ID        Local Intrfce     Holdtme    Capability  Platform  Port ID
shake            Fas 0/4            175          S I      WS-C2940-8Fas 0/3
shake            Fas 0/3            175          S I      WS-C2940-8Fas 0/4
rattle           Gig 0/1            155          S I      WS-C2940-8Gig 0/1
rattle           Fas 0/8            155          S I      WS-C2940-8Fas 0/5
rattle           Fas 0/2            155          S I      WS-C2940-8Fas 0/4
roll             Fas 0/2            148          S I      WS-C2940-8Fas 0/1
billy            Fas 0/2            75            R       MikroTik  ether1-gateway

Feel free to contact me if you want to do spanning-tree and trunking exercises in the marshlabs.