[c-nsp] CatOS third-party SFP support

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:42:28AM -0700, Troy Davis 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.
> 
> Thanks for the reply, Ian.  That's an IOS command, though, not CatOS.
> 
> In CatOS (on 6500/Sup32), "set errdisable disable" has these options (and
> no undocumented "set errdisable disable gbic-invalid").
> 
> I'm going to try "set errdisable disable other" but given Sukumar's reply,
> I'm not holding out hope.

It probably doesn't exist. Note that "service unsupported-transceiver" is 
a fairly recent addition, it didn't exist at all before IOS SXE (after 
enough people complained about this asinine policy apparently). If you 
wanted to run 3rd party SFPs or XENPAKs in say SXD, you were SOL.

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