SFP information display & debug
Request For Opinions:
It would be nice if users could see what type of SFP module is plugged into the device. I can provide an interface via which the web application could gather the information.
There are many SFP modules which have wrong/unsupported information in EEPROM and don't work with our devices, but they could work if correct mode was selected. This application could therefore also have a button [try to make it work], which would try all 3 physical modes with the SFP and discover whether one works. If one working mode is found, the user could click another button [send information to vendor], so that we can add a quirk for that specific SFP to make it work out of box.
Also, for users with working SFPs who also allow our data gathering we could make the system send this information to us, so that we can create a database of compatible SFP modules.