What is the command to enable 3rd party SFP+ transceivers on Arista switch?

Does anyone know the command that enables the usage of 3rd party SFP+ on an Arista 7148S switch?


Solution 1:

  1. Login as admin;
  2. Enable privileged access;
  3. Go to the bash shell;
  4. Touch the filename /mnt/flash/enable3px;
  5. Reboot the switch.

Below is a session from EOS-4.11.6:

localhost login: admin
localhost>ena
localhost#bash

Arista Networks EOS shell

[admin@localhost ~]$ touch /mnt/flash/enable3px
[admin@localhost ~]$ sudo reboot

Solution 2:

The enable3px file is a dummy file. You can create a 0kb txt and rename it "enable3px" and it will work all the same. Hope this helps.

This method seems to have been disabled per arista EOS 11.3