[195066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hunter Fuller)
Tue Jun 20 11:59:21 2017
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From: Hunter Fuller <hf0002+nanog@uah.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:59:06 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:29 AM Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> 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.
For anyone who may be going down this road, if you have a two-port Intel
NIC, I discovered you have to pass "allow_unsupported_sfp=1,1" or it will
only apply to the first port. Hope that helps someone.
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