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

[Jeffrey G. Fitzwater]

It does accept the command in 6.1.3, but non CISCO transceivers still work without running it, and its NOT in the config even with the command “show run all”

if I run the command “no service unsupported-transceiver” and do an interface SHUT NO SHUT the non CISCO still work.

Hmmm….


So CISCO must have changed something in 6.2.2a to require the command for non CISCO transceivers.

This makes me a little nervous running 6.2.2a with this caveat. Sure I can save it in config, but what happens in next release.


I’ll discuss this with my SE and see what they say.



Jeff
On Nov 19, 2013, at 4:24 PM, James Slepicka (c-nsp) <cisco-nsp at slepicka.net> wrote:

> Does the command exist in 6.1(3)?  I don't have a box that I can test with.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey G. Fitzwater [mailto:jfitz at Princeton.EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:19 PM
> To: James Slepicka (c-nsp)
> Cc: Jeffrey G. Fitzwater; Tim Durack; Gert Doering; Christina Klam; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Third party transceivers that fail only with new, NX-OS 6.2.2a on sup-2E
> 
> In 6.1.3 I never had to add the command;  but now with 6.2.2a I have to.
> 
> Are we having fun yet..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:46 PM, James Slepicka (c-nsp) <cisco-nsp at slepicka.net> wrote:
> 
>> Just talked to my SE.  He reports that, in previous versions, some 3rd party transceivers (mine included, apparently) work without "service unsupported-transceiver".  This was 'fixed' in 6.2(2)...
>> 
>> Thanks for reporting this, Jeff.  We'll be upgrading soon and this saved me from a big headache.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf 
>> Of Jeffrey G. Fitzwater
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:33 PM
>> To: Tim Durack
>> Cc: Gert Doering; Christina Klam; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Third party transceivers that fail only with new, 
>> NX-OS 6.2.2a on sup-2E
>> 
>> My error.   Yes it does exist.  Not sure what I did wrong.
>> 
>> i am going back and try new code with command.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Jeff
>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Tim Durack <tdurack at gmail.com<mailto:tdurack at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> "service unsupported-transceiver" works for us on 6.2.2a.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jeffrey G. Fitzwater <jfitz at princeton.edu<mailto:jfitz at princeton.edu>> wrote:
>> I don't see the  "service unsupported-transceiver" command nor does it run (in case its hidden).     That would imply its not there on 7k 6.1.3 or 6.2.2a.
>> 
>> 
>> Can you imagine us doing an upgrade on one of our core 7k and having all the transceivers fail.
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de<mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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