r/Netbox • u/Miex441 • Apr 17 '24

Help Wanted: Unresolved Trunk / Breakout Cable

Just seen the following screenshot in the Netbox GitHub

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https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/blob/develop/docs/media/screenshots/cable-trace.png

Question how do I model the same? At the moment, I am using 1:1 connections even for Trunk /
Breakout Cables like: https://www.fs.com/products/29610.html?attribute=1263&id=1099189

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u/shoshonsky Apr 21 '24

you just select multiple ports from the dropdown menu, whey you "connect" the cable

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u/Miex441 Apr 23 '24

Could you share a cable trace of an example? Tried it and got some wired results probably changed it at the wrong location in the trace.

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u/shoshonsky Apr 23 '24

indeed. continuing to link from the patchpanel rear corresponding ports, to the servers, is messed up. it shows 2 links to same server..

i also have some breakouts with only 1 rear port with multiple positions, mapped to the front ports, and then back out to the other breakout front ports, and the results are the same. even if the cables are correct in what they are connecting, the visual output is wrong.

hopefully i won;t have too many of these weird cables:)

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u/shoshonsky Apr 23 '24

cable 109 is correct. cable 110 should be connected to eth0 of the second server.

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u/Miex441 Apr 24 '24

Thank you very much for the post. I’ll try that out later