[191103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Thu Aug 18 13:30:07 2016
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 07:41:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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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
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 7:32:55 AM
Subject: Re: Arista unqualified SFP
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Mark Tinka wrote:
> All other vendors, explicitly or silently, adopt the same approach.
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?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
