Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?

Once upon a time, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> said:

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.

For Linux at least, the standard driver includes a load-time option to disable vendor check. Just add "options ixgbe allow_unsupported_sfp=1" to your module config and it works just fine. "ethtool -m" reads the DOM fine as well (actually shows more info than some router/switch OSes). -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>