[195064] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Jun 20 11:29:43 2017
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:26:21 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
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Once upon a time, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> said:
> There are two ways around that. One is finding a device driver with vendor
> check disabled. The other option is to get optics that pretend to be Intel.
For Linux at least, the standard driver includes a load-time option to
disable vendor check. Just add "options ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=1"
to your module config and it works just fine. "ethtool -m" reads the
DOM fine as well (actually shows more info than some router/switch
OSes).
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
