Help me enable SFFD on 8616SX-E board

[repaRU]

I want enable SFFD on optical port of 8616SX-E board, but I can’t do it.

# config ethernet 3/5 auto-negotiate disable
# config ethernet 3/5 sffd enable
Error: port 3/5, this hardware does not support SFFD enabling/disabling

In Network Design Guidelines I read that it is feature is supported on this board. Can anyone help me?

Sys Info:
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General Info :

        SysDescr     : Passport-8610 (3.5.10.0)
        SysName      : Passport 1
        SysUpTime    : 74 day(s), 21:40:49
        SysContact   : support@nortelnetworks.com
        SysLocation  : 4655 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Chassis Info :

        Chassis     : 8010
        Serial#     : SSPN6C023S
        HwRev       : 05
        NumSlots    : 10
        NumPorts    : 88
        GlobalFilter: enable
        VlanBySrcMac: disable
        Ecn-Compatib: enableMacAddrCapacity : 1024
        Temperature : 30 C
        MgmtMacAddr : 00:13:0a:de:33:f4
        System MTU  : 1950
        clock_sync_time : 60

Power Supply Info :

        Ps#1 Status       : empty

        Ps#2 Status       : up
        Ps#2 Type         : ac
        Ps#2 Description  : 8004 850W 110/220V AC Power Supply
        Ps#2 Serial Number: ARTSDG025475
        Ps#2 Version      : 08
        Ps#2 Part Number  : 312071-C

        Ps#3 Status       : up
        Ps#3 Type         : ac
        Ps#3 Description  : 8004 850W 110/220V AC Power Supply
        Ps#3 Serial Number: ARTSDG022417
        Ps#3 Version      : 08Fan#1: up, air temp: 29 C
        Fan#2: up, air temp: 27 C

Card Info :

        Slot#         FrontType  FrontHw    Oper   Admin  BackType   BackHw
                                 Version  Status  Status            Version
            1    48x100BaseTX-E       07      up      up      BFM6       07
            2    16x1000BaseT-E       05      up      up      BFM8       05
            3 16x1000BaseSXBB-E       11      up      up      BFM8       11
            4     8x1000BaseT-E       06      up      up      BFM8       07
            5               CPU       06      up      up       SFM       05

System Error Info :

        Send Authentication Trap  : false
        Error Code                : 0
        Error Severity            : 0

Port Lock Info : Sys Software:
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[PederChr]

why not juse LACP ?

 

[repaRU]

Because one of switches not shutdown port when auto negotiation is disabled and one of two fibers damaged.

 

[Alainv]

We also had that problem, and we needed to upgrade

 

[repaRU]

Need hardware upgrade?
What version of board support SFFD?

 

[Alainv]

software upgrade. We moved it that time to the 3.7.10.

Now you need to make a decision. 3.5 and 3.7 entered the MD cycle.
So you need to go to the 4.0 or 4.1 stream. I prefer the latter since the former is based on 3.5 and the latter on 3.7

Never do an upgrade from 3.7 towards 4.0

 

[anthonyanderberg]

The 3.5 code branch has been end-of-life for a while so I'd recommend against it. Recent releases from the 3.7 and 4.0 code branches have had a number of maintenance releases and are quite stable. As Alainv mentioned 4.0 is actually based on 3.5 (with modifications to support the new R-series modules). Version 4.1 is a combination of 4.0 code and features added to 3.7 after the 4.0 branch was split from the 3.5 branch.

Personally I haven't been in a hurry to deploy version 4.1 because of the large number of features that have been added and the limited number of maintenance releases (so far at least.) I'd start by looking at the feature list and see if there is anything in the 3.7 or 4.1 releases that you actually need.

 

[repaRU]

Thanks.
We will test the 3.7 code branch. I post result here after it is.

 

[WillyHe]

Be aware code after 3.5 needs more CPU memory!