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Re: Foundry FastIron


From: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 17:07:38 -0500

On 01/02/2018 04:09 AM, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:
In my experience, Brocades in general aren’t very picky when it comes to working with any optic branding. It’s just the 
DOM that might or might not work.
I’ve only ever had 1 vendor show issues with Brocade after an ironware upgrade.

This applies to the Foundry-lineage stuff. The Brocade-lineage stuff, especially anything having to do with Fibre Channel, is sometimes locked to Brocade-ROM'd parts only. The somewhat popular/cheap 10GbE/FCoE cards floating around exhibit this.

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Brandon Martin


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