N00B here - What are the 7R and 8R ports

Femanon here.
I think those ports have reduced throughput or bandwidth.
R stands for Reduced.

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Routed port?

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>>58317080
>femanon

>>58317013

They share with the SFP ports. If you use SFP's, then you can't use the corresponding ports (7 and 8)

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>>58317219
So if I'm not using the SFP ports then it is fine to use 7R and 8R as normal?
What is the actual point of them?

>>58317643

Correct. Use 7 and 8 like normal if you're not using SFPs. Whatever arch they're uising limited them to 8 so to allow usage of SFPs, they had to share out two ports. No biggie if that's all you need...

>>58317716

Oh the point. If you require the use of fiber, you'd use the SFPs. Or specialized copper interconnects in SFP format.

Thank you all so much