So I have a dumb question:
I picked up an ICX7150-C12P. I'm not doing anything fancy with it, I just needed POE + at least one SFP+ port + complete silence, so I followed Fodeesha's startup guide but then flashed the latest L2 firmware on it. The license from Fodeesha's instructions still seems to be there and fine.
I need one port to take a 1g SFP module (my firewall only has 1g SFP), so I picked up some cheap Ipolex optics from Amazon, but I can't seem to get them to work. My troubleshooting:
- If I take both Ipolex SFP optics and put them in my Mikrotik CSS326, it shows good link (at 1g)
- The Ipolex optics seem to work in my other SFP devices, I haven't tried anything else SFP+
- If I take one optic and put it in the ICX7150, with the other end of the fiber to the Ipolex in the Mikrotik, I get no link.
- If I replace both of them with random Finisar SFP+ optics (one in the ICX and one in Mikrotik), same fiber, I get good 10g link at both ends, so the ICX ports aren't disabled or anything.
Is there some trick / extra step to using an SFP optic in an ICX7150? From Googling this looks like it should just work? Is this just optics pickyness? If the later, anyone have a link to a cheap SFP optic known to work with these devices?
(Right now I've got a SFP-1gbe media converter plugged into an Ethernet port on the ICX leaving both SFP+ ports available, which is probably a better idea, but I'd still like to understand the problem better.)