A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver is detected to be plugged into an SFP port of the network router following a bootup of the network router. Information on one or more device features of the SFP transceiver is obtained from the SFP transceiver plugged into the SFP port of the network router. Subsequently, a port configuration policy that corresponds to the one or more device features of the SFP transceiver and one or more router parameters of the network router is applied to the SFP port of the network router.