Programmers, coding boards, switches, NICs and other hardware
Moving my home FTTH line off the operator's ONT and onto a GPON stick in my own router, so that the fibre lands straight in the rack and I keep one box instead of two. The stick is recognised, the port comes up, and then nothing comes back. MikroTik CRS328-24P-4S+, stick in sfp-sfpplus1…
The poster configured new HP 2530-48G switches (J9281B) with J9775A SFP+ direct-attach cables bought as accessories. The ports stayed down and the log said FFI: port 49 Transceiver type not supported in this port; show tech transceivers first showed nothing and, afer upgrading from YA.15.12.0007 to…
I picked up a couple of second-hand Arista switches for the lab and ran straight into the optics gate. Arista-coded modules link up, passive DAC cables link up, and anything third-party leaves the port down. The lab side: DCS-7150S-24, bought used, no support contract and no account team behind me…
A 2920-48G-PoE+ (J9729A) rejected a J9283B 3 m SFP+ DAC with 00536 FFI: port 45 Transceiver type not supported in this port even though HP lists the cable as compatible; the same cable worked in a 2530 with SFP+ slots. Firmware had been updated without effect. A later reader noticed an old J9283B…
We push traffic from a lab server into a CRS518-16XS-2XQ over a 100G QSFP28 uplink, and it leaves the switch through a MikroTik S+RJ10 copper SFP+ into a plain 1G RJ45 host. The receiving side is missing a large share of the packets and I cannot pin it on anything obvious. Setup: MikroTik…
Running a CWDM ring at the access layer, Catalyst 3750 at aggregation. I got plain modules with no vendor encoding, case marking TTG965D1, 1470-1610 nm grid. The link comes up, traffic flows, but the switch treats them as SX modules: in both inventory and monitoring it shows SX instead of CWDM, so…
Homelab, nothing exotic. An Odroid H2 does routing duty on its 2.5GbE ports, and I wanted to hang it off one of the 10GbE SFP+ cages of the switch through an RJ45 copper module instead of pulling fibre across the room. QNAP QSW-M408S, copper module in one of the 10GbE SFP+ cages Odroid H2 router…
Small office, two buildings, and all I want is a plaain 1000M fibre link between the racks. Both ends are configured for 1000M, both stay dark, and this has been dragging on for weeks now. TP-Link TL-SG3452P, hardware V3, firmware 3.20.4, link taken from one of its SFP cages PLANET IGS-6329-8UP2S4…
We are collapsing two aggregation rows onto FortiSwitch, and the last piece is a 25G interconnect between an FS2048 and an FS648 in adjacent racks. Everything else in the design came up on the first attempt; this one link refuses to. FortiSwitch 2048, 25G front-panel port FortiSwitch 648, 25G…
Joining two campus buildings into one network. In building A there's an Avaya VSP 4400, and only 1G SFP ports are free there: the dedicated uplinks have long been taken for other purposes. In building B there's an Extreme Summit X690-48x-2q-4c, and there only 10G SFP+ ports are free, no other…
Small vSphere cluster, two 10G uplinks per host into a pair of top-of-rack switches. After the ToR was rebooted for a firmware update, part of the VMs on one host went silent and vMotion failed on both uplinks - yet ESXi never marked anything down and the adapter LEDs stayed lit the whole time…
Four HP A5500-HI switches in an IRF stack logged unsupported transceiver messages for six rear-module (JD368B) ports that were cabled with HP J9281B SFP+ DACs to ProLiant Gen8 servers with 530SFP+ NICs. display transceiver interface shwed Transceiver Type STACKSFPPLUS, Connector COPPER, Vendor Name…
A link between two of our sites: about 27 km of single-mode fiber, MES3324F on both ends. Installed a pair of 1550 nm FANG HANG SFPs sold as 40-km modules. The link comes up, lives for a few dozen seconds, and drops, over and over, until the port gets blocked. 2 x Eltex MES3324F, firmware 4.0.7 SFP…
We keep a couple of ONIE boxes in the lab rack for testing, and one of them is an Edgecore AS5114-48X-O-AC-F-EC running dentOS. Port 18 is supposed to carry a 10G link to a neighbouring switch and it simply refuses to cmoe up, even though the platform clearly sees the module. Switch: Edgecore…
We are reusing a pile of 10G optics on a whitebox switch running SONiC, so a few QSFP28 cages are fitted with QSA-style adapters (10GTek QSA-100A) carrying plain 10G SFP+ modules. Mechanically and electrically this is fine. The management side is where it falls apart. switch: 1U whitebox, SONiC…
