Having run into this frustration with VMware + Intel NICs at $JOB-1, I feel
your pain :)
By default, the ixgbe driver does not allow unsupported SFPs (
https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/master/usr/src/uts/common/io/ixgbe/ixgbe_sw.h#L172).
However it does mean there is a driver
Hi folks,
Quick look through the archives doesn't find anything so I figured I'd ask here
before trying to read the code...
The Intel 10ge NIC family has a rep for being picky about third party pluggable
optics that don't have the right vendor ID burned into them. In the Linux
ecosystem
