[c-nsp] SFP DOM SNMP Polling?

Tue Nov 22 17:39:50 UTC 2016

Michael,

I totally missed the fact that reads don’t stress EEPROMs! <blush>

Excellent point, and makes the vendor’s claim totally bogus.

Probably just one employees claim, but the vendor should step up and fix the real problem.

 -mel

> On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Michael Loftis <mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Tim Durack <tdurack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a vendor that does not support SFP DOM SNMP polling. They state this
>> is due to EEPROM read life cycle. Constant reads will damage the SFP.
> 
> Complete and total garbage.  Reading from EEPROM and Flash both DO NOT
> WEAR.  It is the erase+write cycle that wears them.  Further typical
> EEPROM life cycle is ~1M erase/write cycles.  If you wrote it every
> minute you could conceivably wear it out in a couple years...but thats
> flat out not how it works.  The EEPROM, if any, is not going to be
> used for statistics data....maybe fail counts of some kind, lifetime
> (hours) maybe...that sort of thing.
> 
> 
>> 
>> We SNMP poll SFP DOM from Cisco equipment without issue.
>> 
>> Not heard this one before. Trying to see if there is some validity to the
>> statement. Thoughts?
>> 
>> Tim:>
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