[c-nsp] Third party transceivers that fail only with new, NX-OS 6.2.2a on sup-2E

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:59:06PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> I would love to condemn the product managers who make this sort of
> rage-inducing decision to an eternity of dealing with 02:00 maintenance
> windows where you're stuck in a data centre with severe time constraints,
> the network is down because of transceiver issues and you only have the
> wrong brand of transceiver to hand, and there's no reason it shouldn't work
> other than vendor politics.  <RAGE/>

Amen.

(The "service unsupported-transceiver" thing used to be a reasonable
compromise.  It gave customers the freedom of choice, while making it
clear that TAC could refuse to support issues with 3rd party transceivers.
Sorry to hear that the Nexus BU is now competing with the Stupid BU for
the "most annoying BU CY2013" title...)

gert
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