Comboports

This chapter concerns how combo ports will behave and how they differ from ordinary Ethernet ports.

Introduction

A combo port consists of an SFP port and a fixed copper port, where only one of them can be active at a time.

Configuring port settings in WeOS

  • If the copper part of the combo port is used, the port is possible to configure as a normal copper port in WeOS, either via the CLI or Web GUI.
  • If the SFP part of the combo port is used, no configuration is possible, WeOS will use the default settings for the fibre SFP currently used.
  • No hotswap for SFP is possible. The SFP must be inserted at boot.
  • If an SFP is inserted and both the SFP and the copper part have link, the SFP will be used. If the used link will go down, the other part will be used.