[c-nsp] CatOS third-party SFP support

Sukumar Subburayan sukumars at cisco.com
Tue Sep 5 10:43:19 EDT 2006


Ian,

Troy was asking for CatOS equivalent for 'service unsupported-transceiver' 
that is available in IOS, and the answer is there is no equivalent command 
for CatOS.

The command you give below is also for IOS and for a different purpose.

sukumar


On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Ian Dickinson wrote:

> 'no errdisable detect cause gbic-invalid' is the closest equivalent,
> but I don't guarantee that the semantics are identical - ie it may not
> errdisable a faulty gbic, rather than just an unrecognised type.
>
> Ian
>
> Sukumar Subburayan wrote:
>> There is no equivalent support for this command in CatOS.
>>
>> Sorry, I don't have an answer to you why it was decided not to support
>> this command in CatOS.
>>
>> sukumar
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Troy Davis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know the command(s) to allow third-party SFPs in CatOS on
>>> 6500s (hybrid mode)?
>>>
>>> A ton of searching only turned up others wanting the same thing for CatOS.
>>> In IOS, it would be "service unsupported-transceiver" and disabling the
>>> errdisable GBIC detection.
>>>
>>> If it's flat-out impossible in CatOS and always will be, can someone from
>>> Cisco at least say so?  Extra karma for explaining explain why.
>>>
>>> Troy
>
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