Arista unqualified SFP

Thu Aug 18 12:51:13 UTC 2016

Not a case with Intel X*710 new chipset, check is in firmware.
Someone hacked it, but ...

On 2016-08-18 15:41, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Intel does allow DAC of any vendor (assuming they properly identify as
> DACs. You can also disable Intel's check in the Linux drivers.
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> Mike Hammett
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> Midwest Internet Exchange
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> The Brothers WISP
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike at swm.pp.se>
> To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
> Cc: "nanog list" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 7:32:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Arista unqualified SFP
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> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Mark Tinka wrote:
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>> All other vendors, explicitly or silently, adopt the same approach.
> 
> I've heard from people running Intel NICs and HP switches, that this 
> can't
> be turned off there. You run into very interesting problems when you're
> trying to use DAC cables between multi vendor.
> 
> Any pointers to how to turn this of on Intel NICs and HP switches?