Brocade unsupported transceiver?

Wed Mar 21 20:58:17 UTC 2018

Hi,

We have been (and still) using all kinds of brocade hardware, including VDX from early NOS2.x

AFAIK, I couldn’t find an equivalent command to « unsupported transceiver ». So you will always get a syslog message, but usually it won’t stop port from coming up.

Regarding to optical transceivers, re-encoded 3rd party transceivers work very well.

But when it comes to DAC, and we have tested a lot for them, usually we use « original » brocade DACs.

We also tested successfully IBM an CISCO DACs, they work just fine but you’ll the usual syslog message. However, DOM information might be incomplete.

Best regards.

> Le 21 mars 2018 à 21:31, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> a écrit :
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> I've had a few offlist responses looking for the same or about coded optics. 
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> I've been able to use Brocade -coded optics from FiberStore, but a DAC which should be universal (and passes the muster for the Intel NICs it's plugged into) returns, " 2018/03/21-15:14:00, [NSM-1028], 2679, DCE, ERROR, sw0, Incompatible SFP transceiver for interface TenGigabitEthernet 54/0/16 is detected." 
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> Unfortunately, show media doesn't help because the interface is offline. 
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> From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 3:18:28 PM 
> Subject: Brocade unsupported transceiver? 
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> Anyone know if there is a command in Brocade NOS (4.x) to force the use of an unsupported transceiver? If so, what is it? 
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> Mike Hammett 
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