[c-nsp] ASR9K limitations

[Jared Mauch]

If Cisco can't get it right for their own optics, should they be trusted to lock them. 

Jared Mauch

On Jul 4, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Chris Griffin <cgriffin at ufl.edu> wrote:

> 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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