I have used 3rd party Cisco coded optics in an Intel SFP card successfully, but it won't be "officially supported".
Oli On 20 June 2017 at 16:15, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote: > The real question here is: will my NIC support other SFP+ modules than the > few options carried by the NIC vendor? > > For example Intel claims the Intel NICs can only accept SFP+ modules by > Intel. They probably do not make optics themselves and only have few > options available. And indeed if you put in a third party optic it will be > rejected. > > There are two ways around that. One is finding a device driver with vendor > check disabled. The other option is to get optics that pretend to be Intel. > > You can get optics with vendor ID many places. A good place to start is > Fiberstore fs.com because they have public pricing on the website. > > With the vendor id the answer to the question is that all NICs with SFP+ I > ever heard about will support any range, WDM or other special SFP+ module. > > Regards, > > Baldur > > > Den 20. jun. 2017 02.59 skrev "chiel" <ch...@gmx.net>: > > > Hello, > > > > We are deploying more and more server based routers (based on BSD). We > > have now come to the point where we need to have 10GB uplinks one these > > devices and I prefer to plug in a long range 10GB fiber straight into the > > server without it going first into a router/switch from vendor x. It > seems > > to me that all the 10GB PCIe cards only support either copper 10GBASE-T, > > short range 10GBASE-SR or the 10 Km 10GBASE-LR (but only very few). Are > > there any PCIe cards that support 10GBASE-ER and 10GBASE-ZR? I can't seem > > to find any. > > > > Chiel > > > -- Oliver Elliott Senior Network Specialist IT Services, University of Bristol t: 0117 39 (41131)
