[e-nsp] foregin SFP support

Marcin Kuczera marcin at leon.pl
Mon Apr 27 09:49:27 EDT 2009


Daniel Verlouw wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:57 +0100, Marcin Kuczera wrote:
>> How is it resolved in Summit 400 or Summit x450e with foregin SFP modules ?
>> Are they accepted ? Or only ExtremeNetworks branded ???
> 
> third-party SFP's work fine on the X450, although officially unsupported
> of course. Same for XFP's, even when they show 'unsupported' in the CLI
> 'show port config' command, they do work fine.

well, do you configure the switch somehow to accept unsupported SFPs ?

what I got is:
04/27/2009 22:20:06.27 <Erro:PORT> ERROR: Port 1 : Unknown GBIC. Port 
will not activate.
04/27/2009 22:20:06.10 <Erro:PORT> ERROR: Port 2 : Unknown GBIC. Port 
will not activate.


one - finisar LX, the other some CWDM from china.


Regards,
Marcin


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