Alright. Its been a hella long time since I took cisco classes in college. I did however manage to follow and get through the setup guide, very well done, thank you so much. This 24Port POE 6610 switch would have been a $160 brick without your help.
That being said I have an edge router mikrotik 305 upstairs for 10G connectivity and breakout for another 1G POE switch for cameras and a pc with a DAC cable. I am using mikrotik S+Rj10 SFP+ adapters to connect the cat 5e run in my wall from the brocade in my garage to my mikrotik upstairs. No dice unless I use a 1G port on the brocade, then it links up likity split at 1G speeds. I cannot get any auto negotiation when I plug the cable from the 1G port on brocade to a sfp+ port with an S+RJ10 adapter. These SFP+ adapters can only use auto negotiate according to their wiki. Am I missing something dumb on the brocade? Do I need to turn on auto negotiate speed for the front SFP+ ports? I do have my unraid server down there in the same rack plugged into one of the front brocade SFP+ ports with a 2 meter DAC cable and it just works at 10G speed when I plug it in automagically...
I cannot run a DAC or fiber cable from my garage where the rack and brocade and server are up to the third floor. I only have the CAT 5e cable in the wall. Its not an easy pull, the previous owner cut a lot of sheetrock holes to wire up the house. I wish I could just use a fiber cable, seems like they give better signal?
Also I may be doing something wrong on the mikrotik switch, in order to get it to link up to the 1G port on the brocade I have to first plug the FSP+ adapter into the 1G dumb switch that is next to it, and get it to link to that. then if I swap wires to the wire going down to the brocade they will connect at 1G speed. If I don't do the cable switcheroo they wont link up, and according to the wiki for these FSP+ adapters you can't just force set them to a lower speed like say 5G or 2.5G, in case they wont talk at 10G speeds. I would hope they just auto negotiate down, but I've waited for minutes with no link up. I also can't deffinitively find out the maximum distance for these FSP+ adapters but if they are 30 meters I should be ok, as its only 40-50 foot distance of cat 5e cable...