Does 'service unsupported-transceiver' still work for third-party optics on Catalyst 9300 with IOS XE Everest?
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The poster asked whether anyone had used third-party optics in a Cisco Catalyst 9300 series switch running IOS XE Everest (16.x), and specifically whether the hidden global command 'service unsupported-transceiver', long used on older Catalyst platforms to accept non-Cisco SFPs, still functions on this platform and software. No error message or failed module was described; it was a pre-deployment question about vendor lock on the then-new Catalyst 9300.
- Hardware: Cisco Catalyst 9300
- Transceivers: unspecified third-party SFP/SFP+
- Form factor: SFP, SFP+
Symptoms / messages:
no fault reported; question about third-party optic support on Catalyst 9300 IOS XE Everest
Comments 1
Accepted: a respondent said they would not risk third-party optics on the Catalyst 9300 yet because the IOS XE code was not mature enough for that, effectively advising to stay with Cisco optics; the poster thanked them and nobody confirmed whether the command works on this platform.