[j-nsp] SFP Compatibility

[Paul Civati]

Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:

> We escalated this as high as they'd let us. The reply from high up
> was that they were sorry for the inconvenience, but there is no  
> workaround, and that it's for our own protection.

I think this was brought about because they provide a lot of free
lifetime replacement warranty (which is in itself a whole other 
story) with their networking products.

It's very annoying that aside from not supporting non-HP SFPs they 
also prevent you from using any other vendor, even as an unsupported 
part (it's fairly easy to view the installed transceivers from the 
cli to verify what's installed).

Anyway, getting very off-topic now..

-Paul-