Starting to bring up the PicOS switch.
Interesting findings so far... changing port breakout mode requires a reboot (not uncommon, so do most of my other switches).
More annoying is that breakout ports all have to run at the same speed, you can't mix 1G and 10G subinterfaces on a QSFP breakout, or 10G and 25G on a QSFP28.
Not a HUGE deal, I can just pick one quad to break out in 1G mode for those ports, but it does mean for a lab environment switching speeds back and forth will mean physically swapping fibers not just a CLI command.
Andrew Zonenberg
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