Michael, I totally missed the fact that reads don’t stress EEPROMs! <blush>
Excellent point, and makes the vendor’s claim totally bogus. Probably just one employees claim, but the vendor should step up and fix the real problem. -mel > On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Michael Loftis <mlof...@wgops.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Tim Durack <tdur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a vendor that does not support SFP DOM SNMP polling. They state this >> is due to EEPROM read life cycle. Constant reads will damage the SFP. > > Complete and total garbage. Reading from EEPROM and Flash both DO NOT > WEAR. It is the erase+write cycle that wears them. Further typical > EEPROM life cycle is ~1M erase/write cycles. If you wrote it every > minute you could conceivably wear it out in a couple years...but thats > flat out not how it works. The EEPROM, if any, is not going to be > used for statistics data....maybe fail counts of some kind, lifetime > (hours) maybe...that sort of thing. > > >> >> We SNMP poll SFP DOM from Cisco equipment without issue. >> >> Not heard this one before. Trying to see if there is some validity to the >> statement. Thoughts? >> >> Tim:> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-...@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > -- > > "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors > into trouble of all kinds." > -- Samuel Butler