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> Is there any way that you can try a reproduce this  using a B2B configuration, or something that doesn't use XFP as a link partner? I'm thinking that you are correct regarding an incompatibility issue between SFP+ and XFP.

Why do you believe that? The optical signals are the same for SFP+
and XFP.

We have lots of 10G SFP+ / XFP links in production. It just works...

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no