Programmers, coding boards, switches, NICs and other hardware
On two sites a UNAS Pro (UniFi RJ45 SFP+ module) and a UNVR (UniFi fibre SFP+ module) dropped to 1G after every firmware update or power cycle; rebooting the device, the port or the switch did not help, only physically pulling and reinserting the module (or reseating the fibre) restored an…
A new UDM Pro replaced a USG-3; plugging its LAN SFP+ port into the free SFP port of a UniFi Switch 24 with a known-good SFP+ DAC (taken from a working switch-to-switch link) gave no link on either UDM Pro port, and manually setting the UDM Pro port to 1 Gbps did not help. Several other users…
After UniFi Network 10.0.140 / switch firmware 7.2.123 several operators saw SFP+ ports (UI optics, UACC-OM-MM-10G-D, MikroTik XS+DA0001 DACs, UACC-CM-RJ45-MG copper modules) flapping on US-XG-16, USW Pro Max, UDM Pro and USW-24-Pro units, with STP State Flapping alerts, ports blocked, and switches…
With a CSS326-24G-2S+ (SwOS 2.6) and a server with an Intel 82599 card, two different S+DA0001 DACs and two Intel cards never linked; two CSS326 switches connected by DAC only achieved 1 Gbps. A later reader on SwOS 2.12 with an 82599 reported the same. No solution was posted. Hardware involved…
Hi, I am looking for a solution for working with OSFP-XD 1.6 (and higher) transceivers. Your documentation states that CodingBox supports various hardware programmer solutions. Are there plans to develop a programmer for the XD format, and if so, what is the estimated timeframe for the…
Two Solid Optics SFP-H25GB-CU5M SFP28 DACs between a MikroTik CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS and an FS S5860-20SQ switch produced status: no-link on sfp28-1 and sfp28-2 with auto-negotiation off, 25 Gbps, full duplex, FEC91 and no flow control; RouterOS 7.8rc1 was tried on vendor advice. The modules were…
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…
A CSS326 (SwOS 2.12) uplinked to an RB4011 throuhg an FS.com 10G active DAC accumulated Rx MAC errors, Rx FCS errors and Tx pauses. Cleaning the DAC connectosr did not help, and the poster asked whether SwOS had SFP+ bugs. Hardware involved: MikroTik CSS326-24G-2S+, MikroTik RB4011, FS.com 10G…
SFP+ DACs linked MikroTik-to-MikroTik and OLT-to-OLT, but between a V-SOL EPON OLT 16008D and a CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS or CRS326-24G-2S+RM the OLT reported the interface as disconnected. The same DACs were recognised on both platforms, so the poster suspected a cross-vendor auto-negotiation or…
On a CRS226-24G-S2+RM (RouterOS 6.42.11 long-term) the SFP+ port stayed at no link, not running, slave after a power loss, while software reboots were fine; disabling and re-enabling the interface fixed it manually. The problematic module was a Huawei MA5671A GPON SFP, other SFPs behaved, and the…
Two FS.com 1G BiDi SFPs (1490/1310 and 1310/1490 nm) in a MikroTik CRS326-24G-2S+ running SwOS 2.9 detected incoming light around -6 dBm but never established a link; the same optics linked on a Netgear switch. The poster asked whether a manual speed setting was needed and whether RouterOS would…
FS.com 40 km 1550 nm SFP+ modules (item 11592) showed their information in a MikroTik CCR1016 but never linked in the SFP+ ports, whatever the auto-negotiation, 1G/10G speed or flow-control settings; standard 10G modules (item 29851) worked in the same ports, and the 40 km modules ran at 1G in…
Used Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ NICs from eBay were connected with 10Gtek SFP+ DACs and, via QNAP switches, with 10Gtek SR transceivers over OM3. On Linux dmesg looped NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps / NIC Link is Down; on FreeBSD the interface showed no carrier and DHCP failed. allowunsupportedsfp=1…
With two dual-port Mellanox ConnectX-4 cards, a MikroTik SFP+ switch, 1 m OM4 patches and mixed 10G/25G transceivers from several vendors, one NIC port showed link UP but got no DHCP and could not route, 25G transceivers negotiated only 1G, and previously stable 10G links dropped intermittently…
Before deployment the poster asked for a certified or tested SFP28 DAC to connect an HPE FlexFabric 5950 with an SFP28 card to a dual-port Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT (ConnectX-4 Lx), and for any documentation of that pairing. Hardware involved: HPE FlexFabric 5950, Mellanox MCX4121A-ACAT, SFP28 DAC…
We are handing a 100G circuit off to a core router through a leased optical transport system, and the port on our side refuses to come up. The same pair of modules links instantly on the bench, which is what makes this so irritating. Wedge100BF-32X (wedge100bf32x) running SONiC InnoLight…
Small homelab, two second-hand switches and a drawer of optics collected over the years, most of which the hosts refuse because of the vendor code. Recoding has always been the blocker: a proper programmer sits around 369 USD, which is more than I paid for the switches, and the Ubiquiti SFP Wizard…
I do industrial installs, mostly Hirschmann switches in cabinets nobody wants to open twice. On the last couple of projects the optics were the line item that hurt: the switches expect Hirschmann-coded modules, and the original M-SFP parts cost several times an equivalent generic module, with lead…
We are moving the office uplinks from copper to fibre and the quote that came back has DrayTek-branded optics in every line. Before I start arguing about the difference against ordinary 10G modules I would like to know whether the hardware actually cares what sits in the cage, because the…
I do small business installs, and this one is a fibre service handed off on an ADVA FSP 150-GE102Pro. The customer wants the WAN terminated on their own router instead of the carrier box, so it has to land in the SFP+ cage of a MikroTik RB4011iGS+. Nobody told me what fibre the service actually…
We are wiring an FPGA capture card into an existing server and I am stuck at the very first step: the port simply never comes up. The setup: Mellanox MCX414-GCAT (ConnectX-4 EN, QSFP28, 50GbE capable) in the host FS Q-8LCA020 breakout AOC, QSFP+ on one end, eight LC ends on the other FPGA card on…
Standing up 25G uplinks from a QFX5120-48Y towards a second switch and a couple of new servers. Before I hand the segment over I want the link settings written down properly, and I cannot find where auto-negotiation lives on these ports. Juniper QFX5120-48Y 25G optics in the SFP28 cages et…
We are refreshing the core of a small office and put in a pair of Aruba CX 6200F. The link between the two switches is meant to be a 10G trunk on the SFP+ uplinks, and I cannot get either box to admit that 10G exists on that port. 2x Aruba CX 6200F Switch Series, trunk on port 1/1/25 Cisco…
A good half of my work is putting one company's optics into another company's switch, so I spend a lot of time asking a module what it thinks it is. My toolbox for that is currently one command deep, and I would like to know what else is worth putting on the bench machine. Linux boxes with SFP+ and…
Small office, we are dropping the ISP-supplied box and terminating the fibre straight on the router. The handoff is AON, the provider only asks for a VLAN tag, no PPPoE and no ONT registration. What is in the rack: TP-Link ER7412-M2 V1, firmware 1.0.1, fibre into port 11 (SFP WAN) a TP-Link…
We are pushing Wi-Fi into an outbuilding on a campus site. The only fibre going that way is a single strand, so the plan was to hang an AP-375 out there and feed it over a BiDi pair we already had on the shelf. Aruba AP-375, ArubaOS 8 Cisco BiDi SFP in the AP cage, its matching partner wavelength…
A dual-port ConnectX-5 (MT27800, firmware 16.35.1012, MLNXOFED 5.8 on BC-Linux 8.2) connected to a switch with a DAC would not recover after the cable had been connected and disconnected about fifteen times: the port stayed in State: Polling with Physical state ETHANFSMABILITYDETECT, and mlxlink…
On a Mellanox SN2410 (MLNX-OS 3.6.4112) a 100G port connected to a Chelsio adapter through a 2 m unequalised QSFP copper cable would not link when FEC was disabled; no HSS lane signal was detected on the adapter side. The poster required FEC-off operaation and asked whether the switch supports it…
I look after a two-building site and the access switches were replaced with Aruba 2540s a while back. The fibre between the buildings has not been touched, but since the swap the uplink refuses to come up. Aruba 2540 on our side, ports 51 and 52 used for the uplinks Aruba J4858D 1000SX in the 2540…
Mellanox-branded Q-4S28AO03 3 m QSFP28 AOC 1x4 breakout cables (100G with FEC) that worked under Onyx 3.9.1908 stopped linking after an upgrade to Onyx 3.10.x. The ports reported Cable speed not enabled and, with auto speed, Negotiation failure; supported speeds showed 1G/10G/25G but the actual…
