[191124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanislaw)
Thu Aug 18 14:15:07 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:38:30 +0300
From: Stanislaw <me@nek0.net>
To: Ethan <telmnstr@757.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1608180959010.753@users.757.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Yeah, it is.
And yeah, I was considering that option too.
Ethan писал 2016-08-18 16:59:
>> 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.
