Troubleshooting 10 Gb SFP+ transceiver detection (Sophos XGS 136)

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Hi, 
 I've recently installed a 10Gb SFP+ transceiver into Port F1 of a Sophos XGS 136 appliance. I can't tell if the transceiver has been detected by the appliance as I'm getting no link light by connecting to another device. 
 Is there a way to examine log files (at a low level) on the Sophos box to check for errors ? 
 John

LuCar Toni · Answer

XGS136 has only SFP Port. Not SFP+. So you want to use the 10 Gbit/s port as a 1 Gbit/s port?

PhilippRusch · Answer

Hello John, 
 you misread this: it is 10x GE ports, that is ten ports with 1GBE on a model XGS136

PhilippRusch · Answer

Hello John, 
 Ports F1 and F2 on a XGS 136 are SFP-Ports (without +), so they will only accept 1 GBit SFP transceivers. 
 There is a known issue with auto-negotiation on SFP-ports, so you should manually configure this to the same settings on both ends.

Troubleshooting 10 Gb SFP+ transceiver detection (Sophos XGS 136)

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