Popular discussions about programming, compatibility and testing of optical transceivers.
An operator asked about the practical behaviour of Brocade equipment with third-party SFP/SFP+ optics. Experience shared on NANOG: Foundry-heritage platforms (FastIron, NetIron, ICX including ICX7750) generally bring up any MSA-coded module, but the optical-monitor (DDM) function may be unavailable…
A MikroTik RB4011 connected with an S+DA0001 DAC to a CRS106-1C-5S and a CRS112-8G-IN (all default configuration apart from IP addresses) had no connectivity over the SFP link. The RB4011 SFP+ cage is documented to accept onyl active direct-attach cables, so a passive twinax between it and the two…
In a NANOG discussion about vendor lock-in, an operator described two concrete failures. First, a third-party optic answered I2C reads too slowly; the switch vendor's polling code did not handle the timeout and crashed the linecard control plane, and the vendor refused to treat it as a bug because…
While staging an EX2300-48P and an EX2300-24P (both Junos 18.2R3-S5.3) with non-Juniper SFP+/SFP moules, the 48-port switch recognised the transceivers and created interfaces, but the 24-port switch showed nothing in any of its four uplink ports; show chassis hardware listed PIC 1 as 4x10G SFP/SFP+…
A friend of the poster bought several GLC-T copper SFPs sold as original Cisco, but their serial numbers had an unfamiliar format (00000MTC1719055H, 00000MTC171903XL and similar). 'show interface ethernet 1/45 transceiver sprom' on a Cisco Nexus 5596 lists the module as SFP-1000BASE-T, vendor name…
The poster asked why third-party SFP modules stopped working after upgrading Cisco switches to IOS 15.2, whereas other vendors accept Cisco or other optics, and whhether this is a technical limitation. No model, log output or interface details were given despite requests. In a later update the…
An HPE 2920 (J9729A, firmware WB.15.17.0009) with the J9731A 10G expansion module was connected to a DL380 Gen8 with a 560SFP+ NIC using a genuine HPE X242 3 m SFP+ DAC (J9283B). Port A1 with a J9150A SR module worked, but port A2 with the DAC logged Transceiver type not supported in this port and…
A MikroTik CRS312-4C+8XG (RouterOS 7.13.4) and a Ubiquiti USW-Pro-48 (6.6.61) over 20 m OM3 with SR 850 nm SFP+ optics would only negotiate 1G full duplex; 10G attempts failed with no link and occasional Rx Fault on the UniFi side. Several fibre and transceiver combinations were tested and RouterOS…
The poster had an Integra Optics tunable DWDM SFP+ (1528.77-1566.72 nm, 96 channels, 80 km, 10G, sold as Calix/Arista compatible) in an Arista switch. Changing the frequency and configuring the ITU channel through the Arista CLI had no effect: the module kept reporting the same wavelength. The…
The poster wanted to use a 40G QSFP+ to 4x10G SFP+ DAC breakout cable on a Cisco Catalyst 9500-32QC-E running IOS XE 17.6.4 (Bengaluru). The 'hw-module breakout' command is rejected; in global configuration only 'hw-module slot' and 'hw-module subslot' are offered. The switch is not running…
Coming from ordinary office switching, so treat this as a beginner question on the industrial side. I am replacing a long copper run between two panels with fiber on a pair of Stratix 5700 switches and I have never used the SFP slots on these. What I have: two Stratix 5700 switches, one per panel…
The poster's Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 would not come up with third-party Fiberxon 10G SFP+ modules: the i40e driver, version 1.2.48, refused to initialise and reported "The driver failed to load because unsupported module type was detected." They asked how to switch on an…
A CRS326-24G-2S+RM and a CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+PC connected with a MikroTik SplusDA0001 SFP+ DAC only linked at 1 Gbps; enabling 10G dropped the link, and the CRS326 in SwOS did not even offer a 10G option. The poster needed SwOS for harrdware LACP. RouterOS/SwOS updates, supout files, and a replacement…
On an Arista 7050QX running EOS 4.14 the poster tried to use third-party QSFP+ DAC cables; the ports went to errdisable as unqualified transceivers. They patched the XcvrAgent.py agent under /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages to skip the manufacturer check, which cleared the errdisable state but left…
The poster bought eight J9150D 10G SR SFP+ transceivers for an Aruba 5406R zl2 chassis with a J9993A module. Every module lit the orange LED and logged Unsupported Transceiver. (SelftTest Err#098000), even though the compatibility documents list this combination and the chassis had already been…
