Arista unqualified SFP

Ethan telmnstr at 757.org
Thu Aug 18 13:59:55 UTC 2016


> I think someone from Arista said...
> "We are never going to lose an affair due to not supporting 3-d party optics, but we will try to convince the customer to buy our stuff, since that's what we do, we sell stuff".
> In these cheap arista switches, filling them with optics (if the optics is from ANET themselves) is usually the same cost as buying like five switches, so of course they want a share of that and they will try to convince you that 3rd party optics will make the switch go up in flames etc etc.
> So its kinda easy... just present three choices.

Arista is an x86 Fedora box right?

Get someone to make a keygen.




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