From: Doug Yatcilla (yatcilla@purdue.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 11:33:58 EDT
Managers,
I have an old Sun V880 running Solaris. Up to this point, we have
been using the built-in fast ethernet/100Base-T copper ethernet
(which shows up as the eri0 interface with ifconfig.)
I recently discovered that the V800 also comes with a built-in
1000Base-SX fiber ethernet interface (I had mistakenly assumed it was
for connecting additional, external FC-AL disk drives.)
I don't know anything about 1000Base-SX and have only used CAT-5
cables for ethernet.
As far as I can tell, I would need to buy a GBIC SFP Transceiver
(about $150) and fiber cable ($50 for 10ft!) in order to connect that
port to our gigabit ethernet switch (a Linksys SRW-2048)
These days, it seems that copper gigabit ethernet is cheap and
everywhere. As much as I doubt it, could I just get a commodity
PCI gigabit ethernet card ($20-$30 or so) and use it on the V880?
If not, I guess Sun sells more expensive copper gigabit cards.
My question is do you think it be cost effective to use copper or
fiber based gigabit ethernet in this case?
Does anybody use gigabit ethernet with V880s or Sun servers of that
vintage? Any problems?
Thanks for your advice.
Doug
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