I know this came up even recently, but as I recall there is no way right now to specify subrate speeds on ports that are connected to ISP devices with lower and/or asymmetric speeds. For example, gig-E port on a firewall connected to a cable modem running at 12Mbps/3Mbps. Would it not make sense to permit an override on the reported port speed in the port settings screen for these cases? I know this violates the "limit the knobs" philosophy which I can appreciate, but I am not seeing any more general fix for this. On some platforms like IOS you can set the speed via bandwidth, but this is far from universally supported and even there setting asymmetric speed is tricky or not possible depending on version. You could set this in the ifAlias data with a parser, but again, not all platforms support that. I suppose the override could be via ifAlias/parser and then ifAlias could be settable manually if needed. Thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks, Mark