On 25/07/2012 19:17, Jared Mauch wrote: > You will only save money. SFP is a standard media just like USB ports.
It is a standard medium, just like e.g. SATA or SCSI is a standard medium. It's a hardware interface mechanism and is subject to driver bugs, interface protocol ambiguities, hardware peculiarities and all that. In moment of frustration about why vendors decline to support third party SFPs, I occasionally browse the OSS source code to various hardware drivers to get some sort of understanding of the quirks and general messing around that a low-level driver of this form would need to be able to handle gracefully. e.g.: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c?annotate=1.53.2.6 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c?annotate=1.11.2.3 Having said that, I am a happy user of third party transceivers for all my optical requirements. Will happily give the vendor first refusal on any third party quotation I get, but it's an offer that they generally don't take up. Nick _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
