Straight after I finished posting, I remembered I bought 2 Arduino Nano's about 2 or 3 years ago that I forgot about, could be the ticket to quickly get this sorted im thinking
Brocade ICX Series (cheap & powerful 10gbE/40gbE switching)
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it is indeed a PITA, this thread and the people in it are probably your best bet https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/anyone-done-a-brocade-6610-fan-mod.24039/
Ah yes, that's what I was thinking off but couldn't find it quickly when i was typing. Cheers!
Massive PITA compared to the several other much lower "enterprisey" switches i ever had. Ah well, sounds like a good challenge.
Hello,
Long time lurker, first post here. I pulled the trigger for a 6610-24p, and I'm currently on page 60 out 210, keep reading 'til the end
Thanks @fohdeesha for you work here !
Long time lurker, first post here. I pulled the trigger for a 6610-24p, and I'm currently on page 60 out 210, keep reading 'til the end
Thanks @fohdeesha for you work here !It's easy to disable the PSU temp sensor on a 7250-48P.
There is a 2 wire jumper on the main switch board clearly labeled 'PSU T_Sen'. When disconnected, the PSU sensor reports a constant 10.0c reading. ASIC temps are stable at 65c and the fans are running at low speed. I am guessing PSU temp is also in the 60's based on the readings I saw with a single fan at high speed. 3 fans on low is moving about the same air as a single fan on high. It is running 10-15c cooler than the stock 7250-24 in the same rack.
I have a dumb question: is the boot time of the ICX affected by the number of Lan declared inside the switch ? I have had at home a TP Link TL-SG3424. One day after a power failure, my switch didn't boot. I thought it was dead, but in fact it eventually boot but in 40 minutes. I had made trunks to my Proxmox cluster with all vlan, and created 100 Vlans for testing purpose and my switch didn't like it. I know this is a dump question as I had never seen things like that witch Cisco or HPE switch I used to work with...
I didn't receive my unit yet, but I'll definitively test that if no one ever did here before
I didn't receive my unit yet, but I'll definitively test that if no one ever did here before
Honestly, I haven't tried or measured, but I don't think that any configuration possible could make a "real" difference for the boot time, maybe one or two seconds, but it's a tiny margin.
40 minutes is absolutely out of any stetch of imagination
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Good find. I'm assuming you mean this guy?
I was wondering what that's for, A while back I saw the psu_sense silkscreen on the PCB and figured it was just a simple presence sense for the optional external power supply or something. Missed the T. Interestingly it's not present at all or even populated on the PCB on the non-PoE models, I guess they don't monitor PSU temps at all (they'd have no way to now that I look at the internals, there's only 2 wires coming off the PSU itself, 12V DC)
I have a dumb question: is the boot time of the ICX affected by the number of Lan declared inside the switch ? I have had at home a TP Link TL-SG3424. One day after a power failure, my switch didn't boot. I thought it was dead, but in fact it eventually boot but in 40 minutes. I had made trunks to my Proxmox cluster with all vlan, and created 100 Vlans for testing purpose and my switch didn't like it. I know this is a dump question as I had never seen things like that witch Cisco or HPE switch I used to work with...
I didn't receive my unit yet, but I'll definitively test that if no one ever did here before
they definitely have no effect on boot time. When I've used some of these as colo routers I think the largest config I've gotten to was 3000 lines and it booted the same as all the others. The longest process during bootup is reading the firmware image off of flash and uncompressing it into RAM (like any other switch)
Mainly because (IMHO) the power consumption of the switch itself is fairly low, so no need of any special treatment of the PSU itself... the problems arise when in the same space (more or less) it has to deliver some 500-ish W of PoE power instead of the 50W for the switch alone.
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Search has failed me or nobody's posted about it, but has anyone had any experience buying these from Andover CG DBA Network Tigers via eBay? I know there were a few vendors known to routinely be selling known bad units, so when the price looks this good I'm a little hesitant.
They have a HUGE batch of pulls up for sale currently.
They have a HUGE batch of pulls up for sale currently.
Reminds me of a question.. about a month ago while playing musical PSUs with my Brocade gear, I decided I wanted an extra exhaust (-E) power supply for a non-PoE 7450. The 250-watt versions (RPS15) were in short supply and priced too high, so I began looking at the PoE 1,000-watt versions (RPS16).
I can't remember exactly where I read it... a post stating the 1kW power supplies are really 250W (switch) + 750W (PoE), and not 1kW (shared). Does that sound right? And will the RPS16 will work just fine in a non-PoE switch?
Yes and Yes.
(And the reverse is true as well. You can put the 250w PSU in a POE switch, and it'll work fine...just without POE obviously.)
(And the reverse is true as well. You can put the 250w PSU in a POE switch, and it'll work fine...just without POE obviously.)
Yes, they are a dual supply, a 12V 250W for the board itself and a ~51V 750W for the PoE devices.
A PoE capable supply should work on a non-PoE board, but I think it's wiser to ask @fohdeesha
EDIT: Yay, too slow...
Yep, that's the one. Here's another view of the connector nearest the ASIC.Good find. I'm assuming you mean this guy?
I was wondering what that's for, A while back I saw the psu_sense silkscreen on the PCB and figured it was just a simple presence sense for the optional external power supply or something. Missed the T. Interestingly it's not present at all or even populated on the PCB on the non-PoE models, I guess they don't monitor PSU temps at all (they'd have no way to now that I look at the internals, there's only 2 wires coming off the PSU itself, 12V DC)
Nope, out of sheer contempt they had to change it yet again, and on the 7150 it has an actual usb-c port that speaks actual USB, so if you have a usb-c cable you can plug it directly into your PC. The good news is it also has a regular oldschool rj45 serial port, like the 6610 and 6450 etc, so you can use that