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I have an Avaya 4524GT routing switch, which has some fibre ports and some ordinary ethernet ports. I want to internally bridge one particular ethernet port to one particular fibre port, so that the device effectively works as a fibre to ether adapter. How does one do this?

Prateek
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You connect both circuits, ensure that thy are linked up properly, then put them in the same VLAN.

Responding to your comment below, this is something that a switch does not do. It actually sounds like all you want is a media converter, which can be had for very cheap.

EEAA
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  • The question was how to do this. I want to tell the switch "unconditionally send everything that's coming in on wire 24 to wire 17, and vice versa". – Prateek Jan 16 '14 at 13:33
  • Please see my edit above. – EEAA Jan 16 '14 at 14:54
  • It says it's a routing switch, so I thought this might be possible. I am rather new to all this. Yeah buying a media converter is a possibility too, but we were wondering if could use what we already have. Thanks, anyway! – Prateek Jan 16 '14 at 15:57
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    You probably ought to do some reading up on basic networking. Routing, switching, and bridging (basically what the media converter does) are three very distinct technologies, with different use cases. – EEAA Jan 16 '14 at 16:19
  • I agree, I really should. As a math guy I quite like to have a good conceptual understanding of what I'm working with (which I'm clearly lacking here) instead of just groping in the dark and tweaking configuration files till it appears to work. :-) – Prateek Jan 16 '14 at 16:55
  • Cheers! (by the way, it's good etiquette to mark an answer as "accepted" at some point, if you're happy with the information provided.) – EEAA Jan 16 '14 at 17:06