[176176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Matlock)
Mon Nov 17 17:37:16 2014
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:37:08 -0700
From: Ken Matlock <matlockken@gmail.com>
To: ryanL <ryan.landry@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:09 PM, ryanL <ryan.landry@gmail.com> wrote:
> there's a reason why cisco introduced "service unsupported-transceiver",
> which still remains an undocumented command. i have arista gear as well.
> kinda wish they had a similar undocumented command.
>
Arista does have it (at least in older codes, no idea if it still works).
http://serverfault.com/questions/281534/what-is-the-command-to-enable-3rd-party-sfp-transceivers-on-arista-switch
One note: I did not have to reboot the switch for it to work. That took
care of *most* 3rd-party optics, but I seem to recall it didn't cover 100%.
Ken
