From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@netcogov.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 16:34:56 GMT-3
Do a google search on 'gbic-invalid'. There are ways around it...
Chuck Church
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Carlos G Mendioroz
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:02 PM
To: James
Cc: Sharifi, Reza; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: GBIC Rumor...
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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