[c-nsp] is a DWDM SFP a DWDM SFP?

[Bill Blackford]

My devices don't seem to have the unsupported-transceiver knob, so no.



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From: Justin Shore [justin at justinshore.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:41 AM
To: Bill Blackford
Cc: Scott McGrath; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] is a DWDM SFP a DWDM SFP?

Bill Blackford wrote:
> I do not believe that Juniper keys their optics. My experience with this is limited though. I am able to get third-party optics to work just fine in EX switches.
>
> bblackford at wsc-asw-02-1> show chassis hardware
> Hardware inventory:
> Item             Version  Part number  Serial number     Description
> Chassis                                BH0208188142      EX3200-24T
> FPC 0            REV 07   750-021261   BH0208188142      EX3200-24T, 8 POE
>   CPU                     BUILTIN      BUILTIN           FPC CPU
>   PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           24x 10/100/1000 Base-T
>   PIC 1          REV 04   711-021270   AR0209216364      4x GE SFP
>     Xcvr 0                NON-JNPR     FFX20H700284      SFP-SX
> Power Supply 0   REV 02   740-020957   AT0508119769      PS 320W AC
> Fan Tray                                                 Fan Tray
>
> As you can see it identifies the Xcvr as non-Juniper.

Yeah, my J knowledge is pretty much nill.  I'm going on what people with
Junipers have told me.  I'd love to try it out in Olive though if I
could ever find a source for JunOS code that wasn't pre-hacked.

> On the Cisco side, I have a Vertex 1310M GLC-LH-SM that is working fine in a 3560G.

Vertex... I will have to do some research on them.  Is that with or
without the unsupported-transceiver hack?  Thanks for the pointer.

Justin