[geeks] Gigabit upgrade

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
>> I have tried the SFP ports with non-HP fibre optic modules and they 
>> worked fine in spite of HP's warning to use nothing but HP modules.
> 
> However HP has recently started putting checks in the firmware to 
> determine if the module is HP or not, and not running the module in such 
> cases, according to what I read on another list ; so beware.


Aah, the wonders of the new HP .....  :p




It's not HP any more.


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