[195068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Denys Fedoryshchenko)
Tue Jun 20 12:14:05 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:10:42 +0300
From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
To: Hunter Fuller <hf0002+nanog@uah.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAMFTxdTrAty8Dz1BTCvuL2F_UiQixiWFKj517cSgPVES8VawiA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2017-06-20 18:59, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> 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.
Also it wont work with X710, you need to do NVRAM hack for it, SFP are
checked in firmware.
