[[nsp] Cisco & Nortel GBIC Compatible

[Ian Dickinson]

I've often used non-Cisco GBICs under CatOS.
If you run native-IOS or 3550s etc, this is invaluable...

no errdisable detect cause gbic-invalid

If only this worked in GSRs etc.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Mikael
Abrahamsson
Sent: 09 July 2004 13:30
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [[nsp] Cisco & Nortel GBIC Compatible


On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Matti Saarinen wrote:

>  accepted non-Cisco GBICs ever, according to my experience) in way
>  that it would not accept any other than Cisco labelled GBICs.

Does anyone have more concrete facts regarding this? There has been
rumours about this for a long time, but I have only seen key-lock to
Cisco-only optics to work on SFP and Xenpaks, never GBICs.

This always turns out as a big highlighted "NEGATIVE" on my summaries on 
different vendors, and as far as I know, Cisco is the only one doing it 
nowadays.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se

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