Re: 5767 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI Express Adapter - Is T2 top or bottom?

Yes I agree. Have done that and the customer was BAFFLED. (face palm) This despite the labels on the cables and the colored spreadsheet given to them with usage and documentation.

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On 9/2/2016 10:32 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I would argue that in a tight rack, with lots of cabling (and everyone's
cable management is perfect right?) and not enough light that the bottom up
approach makes sense for the Ethernet and Fibre as well. That said, who
cares in the end, there's no reason you can't use T4 before T3 and so on.

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Subject: Re: 5767 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI Express Adapter -
Is T2 top or bottom?

Ethernet AND Fiber count from the top.
Everything else from the bottom. So it won't be long and 'all' cards
will be top down.

If you think about it, back in the day the comm cables were huge thick
things. So connecting the first one to the bottom port made sense as it then
left the upper, 'higher numbered' ports visible for the next connection.

With both fiber and Ethernet it's not such a big deal to see the ports below
even when the upper ones are connected.

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On 9/2/2016 8:56 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Ethernet cards are for some reason exactly opposite of most of the cards.
They start at the top and work down.
T1 is top
T2 is bottom

Other communications cards start at the bottom and work up, and start
with zero not one.

Go figure.

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Subject: 5767 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI Express Adapter
- Is
T2 top or bottom?

Card is labeled with top port as A, bottom port as B.
IBM documentation also states the same.

Hardware resources show as T2 and T1.
Is T2 top or bottom?

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER7/p7hcd/fc5767.htm


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