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Real incidents caused by third-party optics: slow I2C crashing a linecard and a DDM uptime overflow bug
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…