[j-nsp] Junos 12.3 more strict about 3rd party optics?

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Jun 11 10:06:35 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:01:37AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:33:26PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
> > On 10/06/14 16:17, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > >Moving this same exact optic from the QFX5100 to an EX4200 running
> > >11.4R8.5 it fails, so this seems to be an issue with how the optic is
> > >programmed vs. the specific switch/router hardware, rather than
> > >Junos-version specific:
> > 
> > There are some suggestive entries in /var/log/messages now that I
> > look; do you see anything there?
> 
> I've since tried this optic on a different EX4200 running 12.3R4.6,
> and then upgraded it to 13.2X50-D19.2.  The result is the same as
> 11.4R8.5 & 12.3R6.6.  11.4 didn't report anything interesting in
> /var/log/messages, but 12.3 and 13.2 did.

I meant to ask, is there a PFE command that works on EX4200 for
inspecting the optic?  "show xfp" and "test xfp" are available on MX
but not EX4200.


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