Good to know.. these G8124s look like perfect 10gb switches for home.. quite reasonably priced too!
Let us know if the 3rd party fix works TJ. Joe On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Gerard Dupont III <ger...@shelbybb.com> wrote: > Faisal sent me this a while back for those. Works on the G8264 also. > > ===================== > For 3rd party SFP's to work in IBM switches > > To set/reset SFP override, from the console port, start a reload of > the switch, when it says memory test and starts putting periods up on > the display, press the "shift-m" key combination several times, and it > will boot into a "=>" prompt > At the "=>" prompt enter the following (note the "O" in "Override" is > case sensitive): > ==================== > setenv sfp Override > saveenv <<< This is necessary to save the setting to NVRAM to survive a PoR > printenv <<< this is to check to make sure the variable is set > boot > ================================== > > On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > >> Anyone have experience with sfp compatibility? >> >> I just stupidly ordered a bunch of transceivers from fiberstore before >> doing research and now I'm seeing that some models are vendor locked 😂 >> >
