Arista unqualified SFP

Thu Aug 18 12:55:23 UTC 2016

https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/mailman/message/28698959/ 

That or similar doesn't work for that model? 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Denys Fedoryshchenko" <denys at visp.net.lb> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
Cc: "NANOG Mailing List" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 7:51:13 AM 
Subject: Re: Arista unqualified SFP 

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 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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> Midwest Internet Exchange 
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> The Brothers WISP 
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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. 
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> 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? 