Issue
A 40GB Optical QSFP does not appear in the output of cl-sfputil, and is unable to establish a link when brought up.
Environment
- Cumulus Linux 1.5.3
- Edge-Core 5600-52X
- Optical QSFP
Root Cause
The 40 GB Optical QSFP module not being taken out of reset mode.
Diagnostic Steps
A switch may be affected by this issue if it matches the environment described above, and the following command output is observed:
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cl-sfputil
showsSFP not detected
:root@switch:~# cl-sfputil -p swp50 swp50: SFP not detected
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Link state is
state DOWN
after interface is brought up:root@switch:~# ip link set swp50 up root@switch:~# ip link show swp50 52: swp50: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 500 link/ether 08:9e:01:ce:e4:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Resolution
There are no known workarounds. This issue is being tracked in bug CM-2161, and the fix is currently targeted for the release of Cumulus Linux 2.0.
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