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Systems administrator from Austin. Mostly Dell and HPE.
On an Extreme Summit X670 two QSFP+ ports were configured as 4x10G, the ports were set to 10000 full duplex with auto off and VLANs assigned, but a breakout cable with an MPO connector to six LC connectors produced no link on the QSFP+ sie or on the SFP+ side. Hardware involved: Extreme Summit…
Monitoring reported packet loss toward an ESXi iSCSI host; on the Dell S4810 (FTOS 9.11(2.6)) the interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/37 showed the warning Non-qualified pluggable media present, SFP+ type is 10GBASE-CU2M because a non-Dell DAC was used. The link was up with normal traffic (about 16…
A MikroTik CSS610-8G-2S+IN showed an active SFP+ link, but Intel X520-DA1/DA2 NICs (Windows, Linux, ESXi) reported no link, reproducibly across multiple transceiver pairs, DACs and two cards. Firmware 2.12, 2.13rc6, 2.13rc12, 2.13rc25 and the final 2.13 were tested. Hardware involved: MikroTik…
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…
Intel X710/XL710 adapters refuse third-party optics at the firmwre level with the message Rx/Tx is disabled on this device because an unsupported SFP module type was detected, and the i40e driver offers no override. The repository documents a procedure to remove the check: update to a known…
We are lighting a handful of channels over one metro pair with passive mux and demux at both ends, 100 GHz plan. Everything I can actually source is fixed-wavelength DWDM SFP+, a separate part number per channel, and keeping spares that way is getting silly. 10G aggregation at both ends, SFP+ cages…
I look after a small office network, one switch closet, and the four SFP+ cages on our access switch carry the 10G links to the server rack. It ran for months without a thought and now one cage is simply gone. TP-Link TL-SG3428X-M2 (V1), firmware 1.20.4 Build 20241104 Rel.40746, adopted in Omada…