A QSFP28 100 Gb DAC supplied by Supermicro linked two Dell S5248F-ON (OS10 10.4.3.6) switches fine, but between the Dell and a Supermicro XEM-100 the port showed up, line protocol is down. Multiple FEC and negotiation combinations were tried. The thread received no answers. Hardware involved: Dell…
A FreeNAS build on a Supermicro X11SPM-TPF board would not recognise a Ubiquiti UF-RJ45-10G SFP+ copper module in the on-board SFP+ cage, although the switch side showed link. The poster asked for BIOS settings or a compatible 10G RJ45 transceiver. Hardware involved: Supermicro X11SPM-TPF, Intel…
On a Supermicro SYS-1019D-FRN8TP running VyOS 1.4 rolling the on-board Intel X722 (i40e) did not recognise an ISP-supplied 1310/1270 nm single-fibre SFP nor other spare optics; ethtool -m returned Cannot get module EEPROM information: Invalid argument. The poster asked how to apply the well-known…
My firewall is a Supermicro E300-9A running pfSense Plus 22.05, and both 10G SFP+ ports refuse to come up. Neither ix2 nor ix3 ever shows carrier, whatever I put in the cage. Hardware: Supermicro E300-9A, pfSense Plus 22.05 Ubiquiti DAC-SFP10-0.5M and a 10Gtek passive twinax cable Supermicro…
