What it means: The module carries an authentication or signature byte that the switch checks; when the check fails the switch refuses to enable the port. This is a deliberate vendor control to prevent third-party optics. What to do: Use vendor-approved optics where. According to the optical module in the daily application of the switch on some of the problems, summed up a few points to eliminate the basic method of simple problems, the basic steps are as follows : 1. Those messages tell you what the switch detected (authentication mismatch, bad EEPROM, unsupported part number, PHY disagreement) and point to a small set of concrete checks. This engineer is trouble shooting optical transceivers. When you found the following warning info in your logs such as Unsupported transceiver, Unknown, unqualified sfp+ module detected, authentication failed. There are generally three reasons for all the above errors: a. The current version of the. Client used XFP XFP-STM64-LX-SM1310 optical module to connect manufacturer C switch on client S9300, the connection is up, but it cannot ping the direct connection interface, if replacing it by "Finisar FTRX-1411M3", it can ping.