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

[cnsp at marenda.net]

Things will get worse if they start to solder
crytoprocs with mask-programmed vendor-signed certificates 
into the gbic/sfp/.. instead of the serial eeprom.

Also the real-time clock helps to limit the lifetime of
devices to just a little longer than warrenty time.

"show transceiver lifetime remaining"
"show transceiver certificate path"

(for those on h3c-omware: "display transceiver ...")

Just my 0.01 $,

Juergen.

> On 11/19/2013 11:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> >+1 to that.  We recently ran across some 3rd-party CODED DOM-
> supporting
> >optics that have worked (thus far) in both Ciscos and Brocades.  When
> >you can issue a "show int trans" and get results from 3rd-parties
> while
> >Ciscos remain silent, it speaks volumes :)
> 
> Exactly,
> We use a local vendor and have a guy there who can code just about
> anything into the firmware for us so we never have problems with
> unsupported transceivers and the "show int trans" or "sh controller"
> pops out plethora of useful information, we use XFP, SFP+ and SFP in
> different platforms no with issues whatsoever.
> And the prices are just incomparable to Cisco prices.
> 
> adam