[c-nsp] ASR9K limitations

[Chris Griffin]

There was actually a bug that caused this for many authentic Cisco CWDM 
SFPs.  SMU coming for 4.2.1 sometime mid this month.  May help your issue.

Tnx
Chris

On 7/4/2012 5:24 AM, tim wrote:
> On 28.06.2012 12:29 AM, chip wrote:
>> GLC-T SFP's aren't supported, SFP-GE-T's are, this seemed to change
>> from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1, not the support, but the enforcement of it.
>
> Between 4.1.1 and 4.2.1 the support for some of our third party (CWDM)
> SFPs got lost, that means:
>
> show controller
> """
> State:
>      Administrative state: disabled
>      Operational state: Down (Reason: Security failure (not a valid part))
>      LED state: Off
>
> Phy:
>      Media type: Initializing, true state or type not yet known
>      Optics:
>          Vendor:
>          Part number: CWDM-SFP-1550
>          Serial number: xxxxxxxxxx
> """
>
> With 4.1.1 it showed "OEM" in the Vendor field.
>
> "transceiver permit pid all" and "service unsupported-transceiver"
> aren't helping.  As one can see "show inventoy" and "Part number" are
> still working...
>
> So, test your third party SFPs before upgrading.
>
>
> If anybody has a fix (which does not involve new hardware ;)) please let
> me know.
>
> -tim
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