Things will get worse if they start to solder crytoprocs with mask-programmed vendor-signed certificates into the gbic/sfp/.. instead of the serial eeprom.
Also the real-time clock helps to limit the lifetime of devices to just a little longer than warrenty time. "show transceiver lifetime remaining" "show transceiver certificate path" (for those on h3c-omware: "display transceiver ...") Just my 0.01 $, Juergen. > On 11/19/2013 11:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >+1 to that. We recently ran across some 3rd-party CODED DOM- > supporting > >optics that have worked (thus far) in both Ciscos and Brocades. When > >you can issue a "show int trans" and get results from 3rd-parties > while > >Ciscos remain silent, it speaks volumes :) > > Exactly, > We use a local vendor and have a guy there who can code just about > anything into the firmware for us so we never have problems with > unsupported transceivers and the "show int trans" or "sh controller" > pops out plethora of useful information, we use XFP, SFP+ and SFP in > different platforms no with issues whatsoever. > And the prices are just incomparable to Cisco prices. > > adam _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
