On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 11:43:06AM +0200, Rachel Roch wrote: > > > > 6 Oct 2024, 08:44 by cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com: > > > I thought that the driver logs this somewhere. If not this is indeed a > > nasty trap. Also Intel you suck doing this, I know other vendors do that > > as well but you don't need to be as horrible as the rest of the market. > > > > Instead of ranting about it in the knowledge that a corporate is not > going to listen to your rants, just do yourself a favour in the future > and buy yourself programmable SFPs from e.g. Flexoptics (other vendors > are available). > > Then it does not matter what device you have infront of you, you can > reprogram the SFP in about 3 seconds.
Which is showing how stupid these SFP vendor lockins are. So you take the same HW and just twiddle a few bits in its eeprom and boom it works. Also SFP programmers are not cheap and my need for SFP modules is so low that it makes no sense to own one. This is a market that should not exist in the first place. -- :wq Claudio
