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. 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. Based on typical issues encountered with optical modules in daily switch applications, this document summarizes basic troubleshooting steps for resolving common faults: 1. The optical module cannot be properly identified and optical module information cannot be obtained. Dealing. Customers in the use of optical modules will more or less encounter a variety of failure problems, such as optical module model selection is correct, the use of jumper is correct and some common problems, customers have the ability to judge and have a clear solution, but for some of the use of. When a switch refuses to accept an optical module the CLI or system log usually gives a short, blunt hint — an error message. 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.