[195065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rg?= Kost)
Tue Jun 20 11:33:27 2017
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From: "=?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rg?= Kost" <jk@ip-clear.de>
To: "Jim Shankland" <nanog@shankland.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:31:24 +0200
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Nowadays its just an ixgbe-parameter:
parm: allow_unsupported_sfp:Allow unsupported and untested
SFP+ modules on 82599-based adapters (uint)
Jörg
On 20 Jun 2017, at 17:26, Jim Shankland wrote:
> The last I looked -- and it's been a few years, so it might no longer
> be true -- the check for this was in the driver software, which is
> open-sourced. The check was even guarded by an ifdef so that it was
> easily disabled. If you disabled the check, you got a hyperventilating
> syslog warning saying you were taking your life into your hands by
> using unapproved equipment. That warning could then be ignored while
> it receded into rotated and, eventually, expunged log history.
>
> As I said, that was a few years ago, so would need to be reconfirmed.
>
> Jim
