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So, here's the basic setup.

Blue and green wires go to the MDIO bus, which is slow enough (2.5 Mbps with very low drive strength) that I'm not worried about reflections off a few inches of flying wire. Standard 10x passive probes clip to the other end of each.

The two black probes are Teledyne LeCroy QuickLink solder in probe tips. One is going to a D420-A and the other to a D1330; both have way more bandwidth than I need to see SGMII clearly.

I'd use my own AKL-PT5 probes for this measurement (well within their capabilities) except that I'd need to AC couple the measurement and somehow I only have one SMA DC block on the shelf right now. That will be rectified by the end of the week.