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

[Christina Klam]

Jeff,

They are plain ole N7K-SUP2 with N7K-M224XP-23L line cards.  I just
accepted the fact that we will have to pay the Cisco tax.

Regards,
Christina

On 11/19/2013 02:45 PM, Jeffrey G. Fitzwater wrote:
> Christina, are you running on sup-2E ?   We are running many non-CISCO transceivers on nexus 7k running 6.1.3 but when I did the upgrade to 6.2.2a NO GOOD.
> 
> 
> 
> We also ran across issue with 6.2.2a on sup-2E that you cannot overwrite slot0: file.   Delete but no overwrite.  TAC case open.
> 
> Jeff
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Christina Klam <cklam at ias.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Jeff,
>>
>> We have been running 6.2(2) since the summer.  In the last six months, I
>> had to return some third-party "Cisco compatible" twinax cables because
>> they were "Invalid" on our M2s.  And, I just had to swap out some
>> official Cisco SFP-10G-LR because they were "version 1" which also do
>> not work with our M2 cards.
>>
>> As it has been awhile since we ran 6.1 so I do not know if the issue
>> began with 6.2 or not.
>>
>> I do not know if this helps. But, I feel better after venting. :-)
>> -- 
>> Christina Klam
>> Network Engineer
>> Institute for Advanced Study
>> Email:  cklam at ias.edu
>>
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-- 
Christina Klam
Network Engineer
Institute for Advanced Study
Email:  cklam at ias.edu

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