From: Carlos G Mendioroz (tron@huapi.ba.ar)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 15:01:48 GMT-3
James,
other way of seeing it is some hardware manufacturer jumping into cisco
R+D investment profits...
Things are usually more complicated than it surfaces.
James wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:04:46PM -0400, Sharifi, Reza wrote:
>
>>Group,
>>
>> A rumor I would like to qualify or invalidate. The rumor states that Cisco
>>devices running IOS 12.2.3 (I may have the version wrong) and higher will
>>check to ensure that chassis GBICs used are of CISCO origin. It is said that
>>it checks an EPROM chip on the GBIC to determine this. While all of Cisco's
>>documentation states that CISCO GBICs should be utilized in CISCO chassis,
>>realistically third party GBICs are a common way to reduce costs without
>>losing functionality. If the rumor is true, it will become a great concern
>>for many customers. Your comments are appreciated
>
>
> The rumor unfortunately is quite true and further aggravates service provider
> customers / end-users like myself. Does nothing but increasing our hatred
> toward Cisco and look for other vendors --- and wait, Extreme Networks just
> started doing it too! :P
>
> Smarter folks with more clue understand that router vendors like Cisco are
> reselling optics for 10x-100x the price they can be actually purchased for.
> But as clearly obvious, it is the job of the vendor to rape the customers out of
> the most buck they can. We start to get extremely aggravated when vendors
> suddenly remove our choice in the market by locking down GBIC/SFP mods with
> vendor ID for no reason other than to force customers into paying more money.
>
> With that being said, please feel free to hack EPROM in your SFP gbic's at
> will :P
>
> -J
>
-- Carlos G Mendioroz <tron@huapi.ba.ar> LW7 EQI Argentina
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