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opticnerd31

Brazil joined 3 months ago 3 questions 15 comments

Homelab enthusiast from Curitiba. Mostly PON and GPON.

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ConnectX-4 Lx reports Cable is unplugged with FS.com SFP28-25GLR-31 modules over 40 m OS2

A Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx (MCX4121A-ACAAx, firmware 14.32.1900) in a Ryzen desktop (Fedora 41 and Windows 10) detected the interface but reported Cable is unplugged with two FS.com SFP28-25GLR-31 modules and a 40 m single-mode LC duplex patch; a MikroTik router recognised the same optics. The poster…

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Intel X520 in an R630 rejects a 10GBASE-T copper SFP+ with comp_codes_10g=0x00 despite allow_unsupported_sfp=1

We are consolidating a pair of R630s onto 10G and the cabling to the top of the rack is copper, so instead of pulling fibre I put 10GBASE-T SFP+ modules into the X520 cards. The switch end takes them without a word. The servers refuse to. Dell PowerEdge R630, Intel X520 (82599), dual port FS…