Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Robson
On 7 Nov 2011, at 17:00, cisco-nsp-requ...@puck.nether.net wrote: > That sounds like an IOS bug. > > What does "sh idprom int Tex/y | inc endor" say for one of the non-Cisco > parts, compared to a Cisco part? Mystery solved: without going into the full long story, 75oC ambient temperature in a

Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-08 Thread Mack McBride
Architect -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Michael Balasko Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:16 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks What we have done is order one legit optic so

Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Balasko
What we have done is order one legit optic so we can get around the "TAC" issue when we call and then we tend to use finisar or merge for our optics. Nary an issue yet and oddly I feel happy that I am not being asked to grab the far side of the desk. Michael Balasko CCSP,CCNP,MCSE,SCP Network Sp

Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-07 Thread Phil Mayers
On 07/11/11 17:56, Scott Voll wrote: unfortunatelyit all came from a very large customer.. They were using 3rd party stuff and things were failing. couldn't figure it out told cisco to figure it out or they were going to rip everything out. Cisco sent staff and found that the fiber

Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-07 Thread Scott Voll
unfortunatelyit all came from a very large customer.. They were using 3rd party stuff and things were failing. couldn't figure it out told cisco to figure it out or they were going to rip everything out. Cisco sent staff and found that the fiber transciever they were using was over

Re: [c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-07 Thread Phil Mayers
On 07/11/11 14:09, Michael Robson wrote: After seeing how much money there is to be saved from using third party optics instead of Cisco branded ones, we finally bought a few to try. We have encountered no issues with using 10Gbps xenpaks, we plugged them in and they just worked. However, we did

[c-nsp] Third Party Xenpaks

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Robson
After seeing how much money there is to be saved from using third party optics instead of Cisco branded ones, we finally bought a few to try. We have encountered no issues with using 10Gbps xenpaks, we plugged them in and they just worked. However, we did notice that DOM support was missing for